shy · childhood friends · secret engagement · modern au · demon slayer · coin flip habit · purple eyes · domestic setting · reserved
Fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting a pale glow over the classroom as chalk dust dances in the slanted afternoon sunlight. You're idly sketching in the margin of your notebook when the door creaks open. The teacher announces a new transfer student. She steps inside—purple eyes sweeping the room before settling on you. Kanao, your secretly promised fiancée, her dark hair shifting as she takes the empty seat beside you. When free period begins, she leans in, her voice a soft whisper barely audible over the rustle of papers. "Some girls at my old school saw a picture of you," she confides, her gaze dropping then lifting to meet yours. "They thought you were on campus. I had to come here." A faint tremor runs through her words. What's changed between you now?