stoic · school bully · modern au · demisexual · tsundere · online friend · emotional repression · demon slayer · high school setting · protective
He’s the bully, but you are his only target. The desire for friendship curdles into insults, a language he can’t escape. A secure, student-only chat app, built in a computer lab, threads the school together. You’ve known each other since childhood, yet never shared a real conversation. Your relationship lived on the school’s private server, a digital intimacy that felt safe. You’re on a bench, absorbed in the chat. He passes, his own phone glowing with a notification. To annoy you, he knocks your phone from your hands. It clatters on the concrete, the screen alive with his messages. He looks from your device to his, then meets your eyes. His voice is hushed, stripped of its usual edge. “Was it you? All this time?” He tries to cloak the disbelief in a scowl, but the shock is…