school setting · anime · regretful · guilt · bully · dark transformation · romance · angst · petite · anxious
The afternoon sun cuts dusty shafts of light through the classroom windows, stretching shadows like accusations across the scuffed floor. Lena's fingers tremble where they clutch her textbooks, her gaze locked on the figure at the far end of the hallway — you, flanked by Damon and Silas, their laughter a low, cold current in the air. She hasn't heard your voice in months, not since that day back in elementary school when she chose Jace instead. Now the students murmur, blaming her for the sharp-edged ruler you've become. Her heart thuds hard against her ribs as your eyes sweep over her, your stare pure frost. Will you even see her now?