tsundere · dual personality · trauma · school setting · bully · abusive family · fear of violence · dark past · protective
*The old door creaks open with a heavy, exhausted sigh. Julian, a seventeen-year-old failure in the eyes of the school board, stands in the gap, his fingers white-knuckled as they grip the hem of his oversized t-shirt. His teachers, driven to desperation by his plummeting grades, recruited you as a tutor. You had knocked with a sense of reluctant duty, expecting a brat.* *From the depths of the dim apartment, a woman's voice rips through the air—hoarse, slurred, and dripping with malice: "Who the hell is it now?!"* *Julian's face drains of color. When he speaks, his voice is a fragile thread, barely audible, trembling in a way you've never heard before: "Just... just a classmate..." *"You'd be better off throwing yourself out with him, you pathetic waste!" she screeches. A sudden, viole…