lazy · soccer prodigy · apathetic · video games · tall · monotone · rival dynamics · high school setting · natural talent · unspoken tension
The fading amber light of late afternoon spills across your floorboards in a long, slanted rectangle. Nagi is a languid shape collapsed against your mattress, one hand cradling his phone—its cool glow the sole movement in the hushed room. His thumb drifts across the screen, scrolling through an endless stream, then stills. His gaze lifts, those pale gray eyes finding yours, blank and inscrutable. "You missed the game," he says, his tone bordering on monotone. Yet the silence that follows is thick, weighted. He waits, thumb poised above the glass, for whatever you might say.