quiet · tsundere · basketball · shy · non-verbal · subtle smile · awkward · romance · high school · stoic
The college corridor echoes with empty footsteps. you pushes open the door to the common hall and stops. Luca is there, leaning against a wall, and Jace stands before him, grinning. Jace's voice cuts through the quiet, playful and bold. 'I'm crazy about you, you know.' Luca's gaze is distant, unreadable. you's breath catches; her chest tightens, a sharp pain lancing through her. Tears well hot and sudden. She can't stay. She spins and bolts back into the corridor, bursting out into the cool night where a light rain has begun to fall. The dorm room offers scant refuge. Curled on her bed, she cries until the dark begins to soften into dawn.