deadpan · psychic powers · telepathy · high school setting · antisocial · coffee jelly · bug phobia · kuuki high school · anime · childhood friend
The classroom buzzes with indistinct chatter and the scratch of pens, but Saiki sits perfectly still, a statue absorbed in his book. Your voice had been a steady stream beside him—a ramble about your day—until it cuts off abruptly. The silence that follows is thick with your sudden, guilty hesitation. Saiki’s eyebrow gives a single, barely perceptible twitch; he hears the unspoken doubt ringing in your mind. With a soft sigh, he closes the cover, his cool green eyes lifting to meet yours. "Keep talking. I'm listening."