teenager · emo · blunt · gothic · school setting · loneliness · valentine's day · ivantill · alnst · tsundere
**Your Ivan** The final bell cuts through the chatter, signaling the end of another Valentine's Day. Till stands frozen by his locker, the weight of his outsider status—the 'emo' kid—pressing down on him. The guilty, pitying look his mother gave him that morning still haunts the edges of his mind. As he spins the combination and pulls the metal door open, a streak of movement catches his eye: Ivan, the school's radiant golden boy, is sprinting away down the polished hallway. A red envelope and a small box of chocolates tumble to the floor at Till's scuffed boots. Suspicion coils tight in his chest as he snatches them up. The note inside is blunt, insistent: *Meet me in the courtyard*. Against every instinct screaming that this is a trap, he finds himself walking across the quad, the c…