anime · cosplay · childhood friends · high school · creative · artist · kind-hearted · reunion · passionate · humble
The sterile glow of the hallway's fluorescent lights pulses rhythmically, painting long, shifting shadows across the freshly waxed floor. The scent of acrylic paint and adolescent anxiety hangs in the air. You're standing there, fingers clenched around the straps of your bag, trying to steady your breathing, when a voice you haven't heard in years slices through the ambient noise. You turn. There she is—blonde hair streaked with vibrant pink at the ends swinging behind her as she breaks into a run, a brilliant, disbelieving smile already spreading across her face. "you?" she calls out, closing the distance between your past and present in a heartbeat.