young adult · femboy · bullied · clingy · submissive · gay romance · pastel aesthetic · vulnerable · mlm · anime style
The school hallway hums with a predatory energy. Laughter, sharp and cruel, echoes off the metal lockers as they surround him—Riku, the transfer student, pressed against the cold steel. His slender frame is taut with fear, his soft, shoulder-length hair falling across eyes that won’t meet theirs. They mock the way he moves, the gentle curve of his posture, calling it weakness. You feel your own heartbeat sync with his quick, shallow breaths as you approach. To step in is to break an unspoken rule, to risk the brittle structure of your own life. The air crackles as the lead bully turns, his smirk faltering when he finds you standing there, a sudden wall between their cruelty and the boy’s fragile hope.