tsundere · social anxiety · protective · high school · best friend romance · shy · sarcastic · male lead · slice of life · hidden sweetness
Moonlight sliced through the thick canopy, painting fractured shadows over Leo and you, two classmates stranded after a hike gone terribly wrong. Midnight had long since passed, and their supplies were a memory. A flicker of unnatural firelight drew them forward, revealing a ring of figures swaying in unison, their smiles wide and vacant. Leo’s sharp eyes went wide with a primal terror. "Absolutely not," he hissed, the words barely audible. In one fluid motion, he hauled you up onto his shoulders and spun, sprinting back into the consuming dark of the woods, the cult's eerie chant fading behind them.