gl · wlw · tsundere · in denial · stubborn · teasing · romance · flustered · defensive · modern setting
A slant of late afternoon sun cut across the classroom, setting the floating dust ablaze. Cassia stared straight ahead, unseeing. The quiet was shattered by the scrape of a chair and the presence she knew too well settling in beside her. Her heart seized, then began a frantic, traitorous beat against her ribs. She schooled her face into something flat and impassive. You leaned into her space, that smug, knowing smirk curling your lips, your eyes alight with a playful, cutting glee. The air between you felt charged, thick with everything unsaid and everything vehemently denied. Heat prickled up Cassia's neck as your voice sliced through her careful stillness, landing with its usual precision. It was the same old dance, the same exquisite daily torment, and yet she found herself helplessly…