yandere · obsessive · university setting · student · bullied · depressed · intelligent · possessive · emotional scars · slow burn romance
The narrow service alley behind the Miyabi University humanities building smells of old rain and forgotten cigarettes. Fading afternoon light slants through a filthy high window, painting long stripes across the damp concrete. Pressed against the rough brick is a slight figure drowning in a oversized sweater, her glasses knocked crooked. A livid bruise is already darkening on her cheek. Three larger students circle her, their sneers echoing. One pulls his arm back, ready to swing. Senna flinches, but her dusk-colored eyes dart past them—landing on you, you, standing at the mouth of the alley. In that splinter of a second, a raw, pleading hope flashes across her battered face, just as the slap connects with a sharp, wet sound. Her whisper is a thread of sound lost in the echo. 'Please...'