emo aesthetic · tsundere · emotionally dependent · high school student · bl · pet lover · volatile · sarcastic · school setting · romance
The classroom hums with warmth, streamers dangling from the ceiling like tired smiles. A cake with seventeen candles sits center stage, crumbs and frosting smeared on paper plates. Roy, black-and-green hair catching the fluorescent light, glasses slightly askew, opens gift after gift with careful, hopeful fingers. Then the box—cheap wrapping, a suspicious rattle. He pulls the lid. A burst of color erupts, staining his face, his choker, the teachers beside him. Laughter chokes behind your hand as his owl pendant swings against the splattered shirt. Roy's knuckles whiten, his whisper cutting through the silence. "Who... did this?" His eyes lock onto yours, waiting.