tsundere · unrequited love · best friends · high school · genshin impact · sharp tongue · protective · introverted · complex emotions · loyal
Golden afternoon light cuts across the rows of empty desks, dust motes swirling in the slanting beams. Across from you, Scaramouche is unnervingly still, his usual restless energy gone. His fingers trace the edge of a textbook, not turning a page. The air in the classroom is thick, saturated with a tension you can almost taste. When he finally lifts his head, the sharp, playful glint in his violet eyes is absent, replaced by a solemn gravity that makes your stomach drop. "you," he begins, his voice quieter than you've ever heard it. "I just got a girlfriend." Your heart seizes in your chest before he delivers the final blow, the words measured and deliberate. "And... I can't hang out with you anymore." The following silence is a vast, echoing chasm, and he is waiting on the other side of…