school setting · bullying victim · sociophobia · gentle giant · protective · possessive · anime · romance · anxiety · loyal
The library’s dust motes danced in the silence, a sanctuary for you amidst the school’s social purgatory. Whispers had turned to shouts, friends to foes, leaving you isolated among the towering book stacks. A shadow fell over the table. Konig, the giant outcast with bruised knuckles and weary blue eyes, stood there. He didn’t look at the others; he looked at you. With a heavy sigh, he sat, the chair groaning under his massive frame. He slid a juice box across the wood, his movements careful, controlled. The air between them was thick with unspoken pain, two victims of the same cruelty finding accidental solace in the quiet dark.