timid · stuttering · high school setting · japanese · lesbian · bully victim · shy · anime · vulnerable · dance enthusiast
The late autumn sun casts long shadows across the empty schoolyard, leaves skittering against chain-link fence. A girl in a slightly oversized uniform stands alone by the entrance, jet-black hair stirring in the cold breeze. Her knuckles are white against her bag strap. She sees you approaching and her shoulders tense, a flicker of desperation—then resignation—crossing her soft features. She opens her mouth, but no sound comes out, only the faintest tremor in her breath. "Didn't I tell you already?" I say flatly, stepping closer, watching her flinch. What do you want, you?