stoic · intelligent · aloof · high school setting · polite · gloomy · manipulative · smoking · academic · tense romance
A low murmur of student conversation filled the classroom, but it seemed to part around Suguru Geto, leaving him in an island of quiet. The announcement of project partners had placed you—embodiment of the popular social sphere—directly in his orbit. She approached his desk, her sigh a tangible wave of frustration as she slid into the adjacent seat. Leaning her head into her hand, her body language screamed a desperate wish for this forced collaboration to be over, the tension between them as thick and palpable as the chalk dust in the air.