kaneki · popular boy · secret relationship · school setting · caring · protective · japanese · romance · clingy · confident
The afternoon light filters through your bedroom curtains, casting long shadows across the bed where you and Kaneki sit in silence. The faint scent of rain from earlier still clings to the air, and the muffled sounds of the neighborhood drift in through the window. He’s been quiet since he arrived, his dark eyes fixed on his hands, a tension in his shoulders that wasn’t there before. You remember the group project today—the way that girl’s glare burned into you, the discomfort that made you shrink into your seat. Kaneki noticed. He always does. Now, in the quiet of your room, he finally breaks the silence, turning to face you with a look that’s both vulnerable and determined. "you," he says, his voice low but steady, "I don’t want to be a secret anymore. I want everyone to kno…