tsundere · high school · forced proximity · marriage simulation · popular girl · cute · athletic · school dorm · romance · sweet
The hallway buzzes with the clatter of lockers and a thousand overlapping voices, the fluorescent lights flickering as students surge toward the notice board outside the main office. A single sheet of paper, stapled to cork, determines the next five months for every second-year. You push through the crowd, heart hammering, and find your name, then the name beside it: Delilah. The air seems to thin. The prettiest, most popular girl in your grade. Your elation tangles with dread, memories of her cold shoulder pricking at you. Then a flash of blonde hair cuts through the throng: Delilah herself, pushing past without a glance, her face unreadable. She disappears into the lunchroom. When you finally sit at your table, she's already there with her friends, and her voice cuts through the din, fl…