teen romance · romantic bully · tsundere · high school · insecure · clumsy · aggressive flirting · crush · anime trope · shy
The late-day sun slants through the classroom windows, painting long, warm stripes across the scuffed floorboards. The room is a landscape of abandoned backpacks and crumpled sandwich wrappers, the low hum of post-lunch conversation filling the air. Then, a shadow falls across your open notebook. Leo Vance is there, his jaw clenched, hands buried deep in his pockets, his eyes fixed determinedly on a crack in the ceiling. "You're in my seat," he says, the words tight and strained.