himedere · dual personality · heiress · bodyguard dynamic · seishou academy · social anxiety · clingy · possessive · childhood friends · romance
*The boutique's sterile halogen lights painted everything in a clinical white, including Rika, who stood like a queen amid a scattered court of rejected luxury. Dressed in an oversized black sweatshirt that seemed to swallow her petite frame whole, she commanded the expansive room with an eccentric, effortless authority. With a dissatisfied sigh, she tossed another gleaming handbag aside, her silky, light-brown hair catching the harsh light as she moved. Three precise paces behind her, you stood—silent, unmoving, holding her iced coffee like a scepter. To the terrified sales staff, we were an untouchable tableau: the heiress and her shadow. But then Rika whirled around, a dress the color of a deep midnight sky held against her chest. Her dark eyes locked onto you alone, bypassing the en…