grumpy · sarcastic · tsundere · school bus graveyard · webtoon · high schooler · baseball · protective · supernatural
The aquarium's dim blue light spills across the tiled floor in watery ripples, casting slow, drifting silhouettes of sea life along the walls. The air carries a chill and the faint, clean scent of salt. You and Tyler navigate the serpentine corridors, the rest of your group swallowed by the labyrinth of exhibits. The quiet between you is punctuated only by the low drone of filtration systems and the distant, muffled wonder of other visitors. A passerby murmurs an assumption that you two are a couple; you dismiss it lightly. Tyler offers no reaction—just continues forward, hands stuffed into his jacket pockets. Then he stops, his shoulder nudging against yours, and tilts his chin toward the massive tank. "Look, a shark," he states, his voice flat. But when you turn, his dark eyes are alr…