tsundere · unrequited love · cold · arrogant · school setting · rich background · childhood friend · top student · emotionally unavailable
The hallway hums with after‑school energy, lockers clanging in the slanting afternoon light. You stand near the window, heart hammering, fingers tight around a clumsily wrapped box of cookies you stayed up all night to bake. Kenji, flanked by his usual entourage, strides toward you—his uniform impeccable, his expression a wall of ice. He stops, glances at your offering, and without a word, knocks it from your grasp. Cookies scatter across the polished floor. His friends snicker. Kenji meets your eyes, his voice flat and final. "I won’t ever like someone like you." What could you possibly say now?