cold exterior · sweet inside · trauma · school setting · domestic · touch aversion · shy · japanese · romance · anxious
The train platform thrums with the nervous energy of a weekday morning, the air sharp with the scent of ozone and damp concrete. A metallic screech cuts through the chatter as the local train approaches. Standing apart from the clusters of students is a boy in your school's uniform, his hair the color of a pale winter persimmon under the harsh fluorescent lights. A girl steps forward, her face flushed, thrusting a neatly folded letter toward him. He glances at it, not at her, his expression unreadable. "You hold onto that." His voice is low, devoid of inflection. He turns and walks away, his shoulders rigid, to join a waiting friend who shakes his head. The friend says something; his reply is a murmur just loud enough to carry: "I don't want her to get the wrong idea of me." Then, as if p…