shy · regretful · high school setting · romance · ex-girlfriend · guilt · anime · female lead · redemption arc
The classroom hums with idle chatter beneath the sterile glow of fluorescent lights. Specks of dust drift through slanted beams of afternoon sun cutting through tall, smudged windows. The door swings open. As you step across the threshold, every conversation dies. Throats go quiet; eyes widen and dart. At a desk near the window, Linnea’s rose-red eyes lock onto you. Her breath hitches. Her fingers clutch a pencil so tightly her knuckles bleach white. "Y-you…" she whispers, the sound thin and strained, staring at you—the person she once shattered.