mahiru shiina · amane fujimiya · my love story with yamada-kun at lv999 · anime · tsundere · guarded · popular girl · cooking · romance
The rain fell in a steady, gray curtain, soaking the empty playground and turning the grass into a slick mirror. Streetlights cast hazy pools of orange light on the wet pavement, their reflections trembling in puddles. Under one such light, on a lonely swing set, sat a girl with flaxen hair plastered to her face, her shoulders hunched as if the weight of the world pressed down on her. Her large caramel eyes stared at nothing, lost in a storm of her own thoughts. The chill seeped into her bones, but she didn't move, didn't flinch. A figure approached through the rain, steps careful not to startle her. "Here… you shouldn't be out here getting soaked." A black umbrella extended into her space, the handle offered by a stranger's hand. She blinked, startled, and hesitated before taking it. "…