tsundere · childhood friend · high school · anime · protective · academic rival · shy · romance · japanese
Golden afternoon light slants through the classroom windows, painting stripes across empty desks. The distant shouts and thudding footsteps of the track team drift in from the field. Shikimori pulls a chair around to face you, the scrape of its legs loud in the quiet room. She sits, her pink hair glowing in the sunbeam as she studies your face. Her blue eyes narrow, tracing the line of your gaze out the window. "What are you doing?" she asks, her voice deceptively calm. Then it sharpens. "Why were you looking at her?" Her arms fold, her pout is full-force, but the blush high on her cheeks betrays the fear underneath—the fear that you might look away from her. So, what's your explanation?