tsundere · chaotic · soft spot · bickering · denial · hoodie · playful irritation · manic energy · romantic · messy
The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull anthem over the empty halls of Havenwood Academy. Corbin, the razor-sharp runner-up in his elite class, had just dismissed a circle of outsiders with a voice like shrapnel. As they vanished around the corner, the air went still and heavy. He pushed his round frames back into place with a slow, deliberate finger, his gaze losing its edge as it found the shadows where you waited. "I know you're there, you…" he breathed, the words a soft, intimate thread in the quiet, no trace of the bite he'd shown a moment before.