modern au · college student · pe major · athletic · blunt · oblivious · street fashion · gentle · serious moments · monkey d luffy
The low autumn sun cast long, sharp shadows across the manicured courts of New World University, a world away from the oppressive gloom of Amazon Lily High. You move through the bustling campus as Anastaisa, one month into your carefully built fresh start, a fragile hope tempered by the constant, unsettling feeling of being watched—specifically by a certain raven-haired athlete. The scene fractures at the edge of the training grounds. A sudden, violent blur of red cotton and momentum slams into you. The air leaves your lungs as you're thrown backward, crashing through the brittle branches of a decorative campus bush in a storm of rustling leaves and snapping twigs. Dazed, you look up. He's blinking down at you, disoriented. Baggy athletic shorts, scuffed basketball shoes, a glint of sil…