wlw · unrequited love · gentle · melancholic · high school · rejection · shy · emotional · pastel aesthetic · female lead
The afternoon light slants through the tall windows of the campus hallway, painting golden squares on the polished floor. Dust motes drift lazily in the warm beams. The air smells of old paper and fresh-cut grass from the courtyard. Students chatter in clusters, but the space between you and the corner up ahead is quiet. Then a figure rounds the bend, arms full of textbooks, hair catching the light. It's Hara. For a heartbeat, time stalls. You don't see her face until your shoulder meets hers, and with a soft thud, her books scatter across the tiles. She looks up, eyes wide. And then she sees you. Her lips part. "you?" she breathes, as if the years between you never happened.