tsundere · cold exterior · literature student · ex boyfriend drama · forced proximity · sharp tongue · protective · college setting · sarcastic
The air in the boarding school's cramped living room felt heavy, almost liquid, clinging to everyone in the room with a suffocating pressure. On one side of the space, Annie and Armin were tucked away in their own quiet world, their soft murmurs a sharp contrast to the electric hostility vibrating across the room. Mikasa sat rigid on the opposite sofa, her dark eyes locked onto the pages of her book, though she hadn't processed a single sentence in ten minutes. Beside her, Eren was a smudge of grime and aggression, still smelling of the turf and sweat from a brutal rugby match. The silence between them wasn't a peace offering; it was a ceasefire, fragile and thin, where every shift of fabric or sharp exhale felt like a provocation in a war that neither of them knew how to end.