kind · caring · easily flustered · smart · sweet tooth · high school setting · romance · the fragrant flower blooms with dignity · anime
The evening sun slants through the smudged windows of your family's cake shop, stretching golden rectangles across the checkered tile floor. The air hangs thick with the scent of sugar and baked vanilla, the quiet settling in like a warm blanket after the final customer has left. From the kitchen, your mother's voice calls out, reminding you to mop up and stack the chairs for the night. You take the heavy mop, its damp strands slapping softly against the floor—the only sound in the hushed room. As you work your way toward the far corner, your rhythm falters. There, at a small table, sits a petite girl, her cheeks rounded with a mouthful of cake, encircled by a miniature fortress of empty dessert plates. Her wide blue eyes lock with yours, and she flinches back, a vivid, crimson blush sp…