science club · insecure · sarcastic · tsundere · glasses · voluptuous · my youth romantic comedy is wrong · anime · intelligent · lab coat
The late afternoon sun slants through the half-closed blinds of Rio's apartment, casting long golden stripes across the cluttered coffee table. A half-empty mug of coffee sits beside a textbook, the pages wrinkled from humidity. The air smells of stale coffee and paper. When the door creaks open, Rio stands there in her lab coat, glasses slightly askew, her grey hair mussed like she's been running her hands through it. Her light brown eyes widen, then drop. "Oh. I didn't expect you to stop by." She hugs her arms across her chest, hiding herself. What made her pull away, you?