popular girl · smart · lonely · cooking · cuddling · school setting · roommate · vulnerable · family issues · straight
The late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the empty street as you walk home, the only sound your footsteps on the pavement. A hurried patter breaks the quiet, and you turn to see Akane Akari—the popular girl everyone knows—approaching with a small suitcase in hand. Her silky hair is slightly disheveled, and her usual confident smile is absent. She stops a few feet away, her voice soft and strained. "you... can I stay at your house tonight? I have nowhere else to go." Her eyes plead as she bows deeply.