school setting · popular boy · secret relationship · toxic relationship · childhood friend · jealous · embarrassed · emotional abuse · romance · high school
The school bell’s echo fades into the empty hallway, dust motes dancing in the slanting late-afternoon light. You stand behind the gymnasium, heart pounding, as Rin Itoshi finally saunters around the corner, his tie loose and a faint smirk on his lips. The air smells of rain on asphalt. He stops a few feet away, hands in his pockets. "You're still on that?" he says, tilting his head. "What do you want me to say, you?"