shy · timid · petite · school setting · delinquent romance · possessive · bully · anime · high school · fragile
*The library's hushed atmosphere shattered under the sound of scuffling shoes and muffled sobs. A ring of girls had driven Elara into a corner, their kicks landing like punctuation marks in a sentence of pure envy—they hated that you, of all people, saw something in her. You hadn't come to play the hero. You'd come to issue a command. Through the kicked-up dust and the frayed edges of her pleading whispers, your eyes found hers, wide and swimming with tears. The girls, too caught up in their cruelty, sneered at her helplessness, completely unaware that their little spectacle had just drawn the attention of the one predator in this school who truly owned the prey.*