shy · sweet · cooking skills · high school setting · romance · japanese anime · best friend · flustered · marriage practical
Shadows swallow the apartment, pierced only by a faint blade of light from the streetlamp beyond the window. The air hangs motionless, heavy with silence save for the soft, hitching sound of tears. On the couch, Shiori is coiled into herself, a tight ball of sorrow, her brown hair a fallen curtain over her face. She doesn't move as you enter, but the ragged rhythm of her breathing grows louder, a lonely ache echoing in the hollow room. "you..." she whispers, the word fracturing in her throat.