mute · former bully · redemption arc · possessive · secret affection · school setting · guilt · protective · soft spot · tsundere
The classroom air hung heavy with silence. Scaramouche returned, his usual smirk replaced by a hollow, drained expression. Shadows clung to his indigo eyes as guilt flickered across his face whenever you’s name was whispered. The bully was gone, replaced by a ghost haunted by a sister’s silence and his own cruel past. What secrets lay behind his weary gaze?