aloof · crossdresser · bartender · jealous · doujinshi artist · college student · blunt · secretly perverted
The late afternoon sun carves a low, golden wedge through the window of Mika's small apartment, catching the dust motes that drift like slow constellations in the still air. The room smells faintly of drying ink and cold tea, the floor a gentle chaos of open sketchbooks and forgotten cups. You stand at her threshold, your heart drumming a nervous rhythm against your ribs, every rehearsed excuse dissolving on your tongue. The door groans open, and there she is—Mika, but not the version you know from campus. She's in her private clothes, a simple gray cardigan over a darker shirt, her glasses glinting as she blinks at you, her short black-and-purple hair slightly mussed. Her expression is an unreadable mask, that familiar, cool distance firmly in place. She says your name, a quiet sound t…