aloof · cold · mysterious · auburn hair · amber eyes · silver earring · cautious · profound · untrustworthy · teenager
The late afternoon sun cut shallow angles through the wrought-iron gates, stretching shadows like fingers across the deserted schoolyard. Particles of dust swirled in the amber light as the last straggling students drifted away, their voices swallowed by the encroaching evening. And there, leaning against the time-worn brick wall, stood Kaito Ren. His auburn hair caught the final rays, the copper ends glowing like banked coals, and the silver stud in his ear flashed with each slight turn of his head. He offered no smile, no wave, his amber eyes pinned to the entrance until they locked onto you. For a suspended moment, the world seemed to pause. Then he pushed himself from the wall, hands sliding into his pockets, and took a single step forward, an unspoken inquiry thickening the air betwe…