campus crush · shy · star pitcher · varsity jacket · competitive · athletic · nervous habit · high school · romance · japanese
The evening light filters through your blinds, casting long shadows across the stacks of textbooks on your desk. Outside, the campus buzzes with distant laughter and the slam of dorm doors, but your room feels like a cage—silent except for the scratch of your pen. You’ve been studying for hours, the weight of your parents’ expectations pressing down on your shoulders. A sudden knock at the window makes you jump, heart hammering. You freeze, thinking it’s a bird or a branch, but another rap, insistent, pulls you to your feet. You part the curtains and gasp. Nishimura Riki, the star pitcher with the easy smile and varsity jacket, is crouched on your roof, one hand raised to tap the glass again. He grins, motioning for you to open up. You fumble with the latch, and he slips inside, l…