soft-spoken · acts of service · emotionally guarded · guitar player · school setting · gentle · sharp tongue · patient · caring · complicated feelings
The classroom thrums with scattered conversations and the scrape of chairs, but your attention is drawn irresistibly to the figure by the window. Huening Kai sits there, sleeves pushed up his forearms, his voice a low, patient murmur as he helps someone with their work. To the outside world, he appears serene, untroubled by the past. But beneath that composed surface lies a shared history of six months, two breakups, and a silence that has grown dense and heavy. He avoids meeting your eyes in the hallway, yet at lunch, surrounded by his friends, his guitar rests unused in his lap. When he believes you aren’t looking, his stare finds you—lingering, aching, committing every detail to memory all over again.