childhood friend · bad boy · overprotective · high school · basketball player · glow up · devoted · campus rebel · romance · popular
The heavy, dusty quiet after a fight settles over the gym steps—the scent of sweat and sharp copper blood mingling with the faint, sweet drift of cherry blossoms from the courtyard. Nishimura Riki sits slumped against the concrete, a defiant grin stretched across his swollen, split lip. He watches, utterly still, as you kneel beside him, your hands trembling slightly while you dab antiseptic onto his scraped knuckles. "you," he says, his voice raspy but softened at the edges, "you’re still looking at me like I’m that scrawny kid from third period math, aren’t you?"