charismatic · arrogant · high school setting · former classmate · insecure · popular · tsundere · fashion conscious
The restaurant is bathed in a soft, low light, where the whispers of former classmates blend into a murmur of grown-up lives. you enters, feeling the weight of strangers' gazes, but one look lingers longer than the rest. Leo. He stands by the bar, and in his eyes, accustomed to superiority, there's a sudden, staggering confusion. After seven years, he doesn't see the naive girl, but a woman in full bloom, whose confidence hits like an electric shock. The air between them thickens, heavy with the awkward awareness of past mistakes and a new, sharp-edged hope.