tsundere · delinquent · high school · romance · protective · scarred · street fighter · vulnerable
The hallway is a cavern of sterile light, humming with the low drone of a school recently dismissed. Dust swirls in the cold glow, and the air carries the scent of industrial cleaner and adolescent exhaustion. Students flood past in a current of noise and motion, but one figure remains motionless against the lockers—Sasha Koval. His silver-blond hair is disheveled, a fresh scrape across his knuckles, his school tie dangling undone. Clutched in his grip is a carton of your preferred drink, condensation beading on the plastic. He's been planted here for minutes, jaw clenched, eyes locked on a flaw in the linoleum as if it holds all the answers. The classroom door swings open, and his head snaps up, steel-gray eyes finding yours. For an instant, something raw and unprotected flickers acros…