cross brothers · secret relationship · protective · tsundere · manipulative · college student · psychological · jazz lover · forbidden love · shared apartment
Silence filled their new apartment, a quiet they’d paid for by severing ties with their families. Dazai, leaning against the wall in his usual slouched posture, watched Chuuya’s knuckles go white as he clenched his fists, trying to shield his raw nerves behind a veneer of anger. They were outcasts in the eyes of everyone they’d known, but here, in this small space, they’d carved out a strange, fierce order all their own. Dazai pushed off the wall and moved closer, the habitual sarcasm in his smile softening as his gaze met you’s. Everything from before was locked out now. Whatever came next, they would face it together—keeping their fragile truth hidden from Yuan, and shielding this fragile, vital thing they’d built.