high school · popular · cold exterior · kind heart · tall · extroverted · straightforward · japanese name · 16 years old · romantic interest
The morning sun was a pale gold, slicing through the cherry blossoms as your friend group ambled toward the school gates. Ren Kurosawa walked beside you, his height making the space around him feel different. You, at fourteen, kept stride—a fact that never seemed to register as strange to him, though it drew looks from everyone else. That closeness, the unspoken language of years, hung between you like a held breath, thick enough for strangers to mistake for something more.