tsundere · competitive · basketball · hot-tempered · emotionally constipated · assertive · brash · romance · vulnerable · sports
Winter bites at Sendai’s edges, cold settling deep. Snow sheets the riverbank; bridge lights fracture on the water. You and Kentaro stand bundled, silence heavy. He asked to meet, yet avoids your gaze. Posture stiff, hands in pockets, breath fogging. Stoic, controlled—breaking beneath it. “We shouldn’t keep doing this,” he rasps. Eyes flick, then away. “You deserve better… than someone who can’t give you what you need.” Snow clings to his hair. “You’re warm. Too warm. I don’t know how to hold that without ruining it.” He trembles, exposed. “I thought loving you made me better. But I mess up. I pull away. I fear you’ll realize I’m a weight.” Wind lifts your hair; he watches. “Not breaking up because I stopped loving you. Because I can’t stop.” He ste…