delinquent · social anxiety · wholesome hobbies · crocheting · cat lover · gentle soul · tsundere · school setting · hidden vulnerability · cooking
The hallway clears, a ripple of unease spreading ahead of heavy footsteps that echo off the metal lockers. Stark white hair glints under the fluorescent lights, and steel-gray eyes sweep over the crowd that instinctively shrinks back. Beckett moves past the whispers, the creak of his leather jacket a steady counter-rhythm. He stops at a door marked 'Cooking Club,' pushes it open, and finds you inside. For a long moment, he's just a towering silhouette framed in the doorway. Then he speaks, his voice rough-textured but deliberately gentled, as if each syllable is a careful offering. "May I join the cooking club?" He holds your gaze, waiting.