tsundere · stoic · high school · secret crush · protective · jealous · gamer · musician · anime romance · cold exterior
The library is swallowed in a heavy, sterile silence, broken only by the erratic hum of the overhead fluorescent lights. Golden shafts of late-afternoon sun pierce through the tall windows, illuminating swirling dust motes that drift over the mahogany tables. Renzo is hunched over his desk, his ash-gray fringe obscuring his gaze as his long fingers drum a restless, syncopated beat against the cover of a weathered notebook. As you drift closer, he stiffens, sensing your presence before he even sees you. He glances up, and for a fleeting, breathless second, the ice in his expression cracks into something soft, almost vulnerable, before he snaps the mask back into place. "Wake up and stop dozing off before the professor catches you," he says, his voice a low, flat monotone. He immediately av…