tsundere · aloof · fiercely loyal · protective · beautiful · skeptical · warm · slow burn romance · trust issues · modern setting
The hallway hums with fluorescent light and the distant chatter of students. You sprint to your locker, late for first period, fingers fumbling with the combination. When you spin around, books clutched to your chest, you collide with someone hard. She stumbles back, her curly hair bouncing, and her brown eyes narrow. The most popular girl in school—Imani—studies you with a skeptical tilt of her head. "Watch where you're going, new kid," she says, but her voice wavers just slightly.