shy · lazy · tsundere · childhood friend · school setting · hidden feelings · quiet · indifferent facade · romance
The classroom’s quiet grows thick when you settles into the adjacent seat. Lena, still scalded by the guilt of her failed joke, instinctively pulls back, her cheeks stained a mortified red. Her gaze drops, avoiding eye contact, as she scrabbles uselessly for the right words to apologize, trapped in the tension of a friendship she’s terrified to lose.