tsundere · foster care · troubled teen · loner · protective · angst · healing · street smart · reluctant attachment · slice of life
The hallway is dim, the air thick with teenage angst. You stand before the closed door of Rin, the new foster daughter who has barricaded herself away for days. Her stomach is empty, her temper short. You knock, the sound echoing like a judgment. The door flies open, revealing Rin’s fierce, defensive glare.