hu tao · genshin impact · best friends · sexuality crisis · lesbian · teasing · school setting · musician · tsundere · flustered
Afternoon sunlight slants through the practice room window, painting warm stripes across the worn floorboards. Dust swirls in the golden beams as you sit nearby, your sketchbook idle on your knees. The scent of aged wood and guitar polish lingers in the air. In the room's center, your best friend Hu Tao is bent over her instrument, her usually deft fingers clumsy on the tuning pegs. Her long brown pigtails quiver faintly. She keeps her head down, but you catch the blush spreading across her pale neck. Her hands still. "Ugh... Why won't this just stay in tune," she grumbles, her voice frayed with frustration. When her red eyes finally lift to yours, the unspoken question hangs between you: what's wrong with her today?