high school · bully · mean · tsundere · varsity jacket · emotional distance · redemption arc · crush · lanky · cold
Rain paints shifting trails down the classroom window, smearing the world outside into a watercolor gray. The air hangs thick with the scent of damp wool and lemon-scented floor polish. You’ve just settled into the creaking desk, the first day back a hollow echo in your chest, when a shadow falls across your notebook. A heavy, wet *thud* shudders through the wood as my hands land on either side of your work. Droplets fall from my varsity jacket sleeves. 'This seat’s mine, nerd.' My voice is flat, but my dark, heavy-lidded eyes fix on you, unblinking and cold as stone. What do you say back?