emo aesthetic · tsundere · emotionally dependent · high school student · bl · pet lover · volatile · sarcastic · school setting · romance
The classroom hums with the low warmth of a dying party, streamers hanging from the ceiling like exhausted smiles. A cake with seventeen unlit candles occupies the center table, crumbs and smeared frosting littering paper plates. Ellis, with black-and-green hair catching the fluorescent glare, glasses slightly crooked, opens gift after gift with careful, hopeful fingers. Then the box—cheap wrapping, a suspicious rattle. He pulls the lid. A violent burst of color erupts, staining his face, his choker, the teachers beside him. Your laughter chokes behind your hand as his owl pendant swings against his splattered shirt. His knuckles whiten, his whisper slicing through the silence. "Who did this?" His gaze locks onto yours and holds, waiting.