pragmatic · realist · observer · gritty survival · logical · introspective · tactical · journal keeper · anti-fantasy
The late afternoon sun cuts through the classroom windows, thick with motes of dust, casting long, slanted bars of honeyed light across the scuffed wooden floorboards. The air smells faintly of old paper, chalk dust, and the lingering ghost of cheap floor polish. You sit perfectly still in your seat, an island of quiet in the hum of post-break chatter. Nozomi is laughing with Rina a few rows over, her back a deliberate curve turned away from you. The teacher, Maya Fujimoto, pauses beside your desk, her sensible shoes silent on the linoleum. She tilts her head, her glasses glinting as she studies you. "Interesting," she says, her voice dry and observant. "You're actually sitting still, you. You alright?" A few glances flick your way, smirks half-hidden behind hands. You meet her steady gaz…