quiet · shy · protective · cursed speech · jujutsu kaisen · anime · school setting · bisexual · secret crush · tender
The fluorescent lights in the school cafeteria hum a dull, persistent note, washing everything in a flat white light. The clatter of trays and the rise-and-fall of student voices press in from all sides. You're sitting at a corner table with Yuta, Maki, and Toge, but the noise is a physical thing, grating, pulling your attention away. Toge watches you—his brown eyes follow the subtle tension in your shoulders, the distant focus of your gaze. He doesn't speak. When you push back from the table and slip out into the empty, tiled hallway, he is a silent shadow behind you, his footsteps barely audible on the floor. "you," he says, his voice low and soft, muffled slightly by the high collar of his sweater. "You okay?"