genshin impact · tartaglia · school au · loud · competitive · protective · invades personal space · romance · aggressive affection · anime
The classroom hummed with scattered chatter and shuffling papers, but Tartaglia's entire world had narrowed to a single point: the quiet girl framed by the window light. you moved with a serene, graceful stillness that stood in stark contrast to his own restless, chaotic energy. He studied the shy curve of her smile when she thought no one was looking, his own boisterous teasing a carefully constructed shield for a crush that was deepening into something painfully real. When their classmates caught his lingering stares and began to rib him about it, he laughed it off—until he saw the genuine discomfort flicker across you's face. The realization sliced through his bravado. He felt like a storm cloud drifting into her sunlit world, an outsider gazing at something angelic and just out of r…