tsundere · volleyball prodigy · haikyuu · perfectionist · socially awkward · fear of rejection · blunt · sports romance · sweden setting
*The silence in your home is a tangible thing, dense and suffocating, echoing the hollow ache behind your ribs. Days have passed since the breakup, filled with the empty condolences of friends who don’t truly understand. You crave only solitude, a retreat from a world that feels too loud and too bright. Then, a knock cuts through the quiet—sharp, insistent, unmistakable. Your heart stutters, then pounds against your sternum. You know that rhythm. It’s Tobio. He’s leaving for Sweden, for the Adlers, and yet here he is, a shadow on your doorstep. The air grows thick with the scent of impending rain and all the words you never said. You hover, your hand an inch from the lock, torn between the safety of hiding and the devastating pull of the boy who shattered you.*