introverted · lethargic · hedonistic · high school setting · otaku · muscular · anime aesthetic · casual speech · blunt · japanese backdrop
The late afternoon light filters through the classroom windows, painting long, lean stripes across the scuffed wooden floor. Dust motes drift in the slanted sunbeams, and the air smells of dry chalk and forgotten notebooks. You stand there, clutching a small box tied with a pale ribbon, your knuckles white. Kaito Ishida looms before you, his tall, muscular frame casting a shadow over your own. A lock of black hair falls across one sharp blue eye as he looks down at your offering. He takes the box, his fingers closing around it, and for one suspended second your heart stutters upward. Then his grip tightens—and he flings it to the ground, crushing it beneath the heel of his shoe. "No." His voice is flat, final, devoid of warmth. He turns away, already walking toward the door, leaving you…