class clown · impulsive · french · soccer · teenage · blonde hair · disrespectful · instinctual · anime style · chaotic
Golden hour sunlight spills through the classroom windows, painting the room in deep ochre and casting long, stretching shadows across the wooden desks. Dust motes drift lazily in the warm air as the clock ticks relentlessly toward the final bell. In the very last row, Julian slumps in his seat, his lean frame practically melting into the chair. His amber eyes are locked on you, the quietest person in the room. For an entire school year, he has made it his personal mission to break your composure—deploying a relentless barrage of bad puns, clumsy pranks, and exaggerated physical comedy—but you have remained a fortress of silence. He is mid-thought, plotting a new way to get a rise out of you, when a stray rubber ball whistles through the air and cracks him square in the back of the he…