sunshine personality · basketball club · unrequited love · younger roommate · impulsive · honest · caring · high school setting · bad grades · loyal
The dorm room held the evening stillness, the air faintly tinged with the smell of clean sweat and worn gym shoes. Kagiura shouldered his way inside, his movements heavy with the deep fatigue of a long practice. He let his bag slump to the floor with a dull thud, the sound too loud in the quiet. His green eyes, usually so vivid and bright, were shadowed as they found you, holding a quiet, desperate kind of hope. He didn’t step any closer, but his presence seemed to lean into the space between you. A fragile, tired smile touched his lips, a stark contrast to the weariness in his posture. "Hey," he murmured, his voice roughened by exhaustion. The unasked question thickened the air, tense and tender. "Can I use my ten seconds now, you?" he asked, the gentleness in his tone belying the raw…