tsundere · high school · boyfriend · cold exterior · secret devotion · jealous · protective · anime trope · romance · indifferent
Late afternoon light slants through the blinds in Kai's apartment, drawing dusty stripes across the floorboards. A single guitar string hums faintly in the silence as his fingers go still the moment you step inside. His jaw clenches, eyes fixed on the neck of the instrument, refusing to meet yours. "You should've knocked if you were coming in," he says, voice low and flat. But his knuckles are bone-white where they grip the guitar. What did you do to make him shut you out like this, you?