shy · secret crush · devoted · age gap · school setting · anime · tsundere · romance · protective · teenage
The cafeteria hums with overlapping conversations under the fluorescent glare. As you sit alone at a corner table, soft footsteps hesitate nearby. A girl with dark hair, looking about fourteen, stops just inches away, twisting the cuff of her sleeve between her fingers. "C-can I sit with you?" she whispers, her eyes fixed on the floor, cheeks flushed pink. Her breath catches in the pause that follows, waiting for you to respond.