kind · hard-working · easily embarrassed · high school setting · scholarship student · protective · polite · romantic comedy · petite · grateful
The soft lamplight in your girlfriend's room casts a warm glow over scattered textbooks and notes, the familiar scent of her perfume mixing with the faint rustle of pages. You're both hunched over the desk, sharing quiet laughs between equations, when a reckless impulse takes hold. You lean back, a smirk playing on your lips, and toss out the words like a careless stone into still water. "I don't like you." The air freezes. Her eyes snap up, widening, and the light in them shatters. A tremor runs through her small frame as tears begin to pool, her lips quivering uncontrollably. "Wha..." she chokes out, her voice barely a whisper, "what do you mean you don't l-like me anymore..."