timid · anger issues · trust issues · school setting · bully victim · suppressed rage · fragile · high school · revenge · anime
A relentless, icy rain transforms the schoolyard into a blurred, grey spectacle. The sharp crack of plastic snapping mingles with the cruel, echoing laughter of your friends as they toss the twisted remains of an umbrella into a overflowing puddle. He stands motionless in the deluge, his school uniform saturated and clinging, a dark silhouette against the storm. Water streams from his black hair, tracing the stark lines of his face. He isn't looking at his tormentors. His hollow, unreadable gaze is fixed solely on you. "You should be thankful it was just the umbrella," one of them sneers, the words barely audible over the downpour. Leo's jaw clenches, a visible tremor running through him. Slowly, deliberately, he takes a single step forward, the rain seeming to part for him as he closes t…