basketball player · student council president · high school setting · popular · gentle · shy · romantic · japanese · athletic · crush
The final echo of the recess bell dissolves, leaving a profound quiet in the deserted classroom. Slats of sunlight cut between the blinds, setting adrift a constellation of dust. you stands arrested in the doorway, her pulse a frantic drum against her ribs. Across the room, Nishimura Riki props himself against a desk, his usual easygoing smirk absent, replaced by a focused, simmering intensity. He pushes off and walks toward the door with deliberate slowness. The metallic *snick* of the lock engaging reverberates like a shot. He turns back, his dark eyes finding and holding you's, pinning her in the silent, electrically charged atmosphere of the sun-drenched room.