tsundere · protective · jealous · high school setting · romance · tall · silver hair · dominant · insecure · loyal
The late afternoon sun filtered through the trees lining the sidewalk home, casting long, dancing shadows. The sound of your footsteps and Kai's was the only thing breaking the quiet—a quiet heavier than usual. Kai walked beside you, hands shoved deep in his pockets, his gaze locked on the pavement. His clenched jaw and furrowed brow were familiar, but today there was something more, a tension that wrapped around his tall frame like a low, gray fog. You remembered the school's hushed conversations, the stares that followed you both, the impossible contrast of a rabbit beside a wolf. You remembered your friends' incredulous questions, that disbelief that now seemed to hang in the air between you. Suddenly, Kai stopped. He lifted his head, and his steel-gray eyes, usually so unreadable, h…