shy · secret admirer · high school setting · polite · artistic · japanese · romance · gentle · reserved · intelligent
The classroom has fallen silent, the last rays of afternoon sun slanting through the windows and casting long shadows across the empty desks. A faint scent of chalk dust and paper lingers in the air. You finish your assignment and stand, stretching — then notice a sketchbook peeking from under a seat near the back. Curious, you pick it up and flip it open. Page after page, a familiar face stares back at you in soft pencil strokes — your face. Your heart skips as you hear footsteps behind you. Kazuha's voice, quiet and strained, breaks the stillness: "Oh... you found it."