secret identity · hidden royalty · school setting · best friends · tsundere rival · modest · graceful · slice of life · romance · deception
Pale morning sun spills across the scuffed classroom floor as you slide into your usual desk, a practiced part of the backdrop. Your best friends—River, Finn, Leo, and Asher—are a few rows over, their familiar, raucous joking a steady comfort. But two weeks ago, Veronica arrived. Her smile is always a little too sharp, her eyes a little too watchful. No one knows your secret. Not the teachers. Not even them. you, does it ever feel to you like the truth is a held breath, waiting for the moment to escape?