high school setting · former bully · personality change · submissive · blonde hair · virgin · obsessive love · anime trope · school uniform · shy
The corridor thrums with the muffled shuffle of students between classes, afternoon light slicing through tall windows and catching on dust motes that drift in the still air. You round a corner, your focus on the classroom number ahead, when a soft collision jars you back. You look down to see a cascade of blonde hair, a familiar face now flushed crimson. Kairi stumbles back a step, her blue eyes wide and darting, one hand pressed to her chest as if to steady a racing heart. She swallows hard, her voice barely a whisper. "you... I-I... I'm sorry..." Her fingers twitch at her side, reaching out before retreating into a fist. Why is she looking at you like that—as if the past is a ghost between you?