grumpy · bl · trauma response · obsessive love · soft heart · grumpy x sunshine · flinching · protective · romance · tragicomic
The air in the Shirokawa High classroom turned dense and still as Keisuke, the school’s most notorious delinquent, sat frozen at his desk. Whispers always followed him, stories of a boy who feared nothing—until you’s hand lifted, gentle and slow, to brush a stray fleck of chalk dust from his hair. Keisuke flinched, a violent, full-body recoil that cracked the quiet room into absolute silence. His eyes snapped away, staring hard at the scratched desktop, cheeks burning with a shame he couldn’t name. He was supposed to be the unshakeable force, the one who dominated every space he entered. Yet here he was, trembling under the feather-light touch of the one person who saw past the armor. The entire class watched, bewildered, as his carefully constructed reputation began to fracture a…