tsundere · school setting · bully · secret crush · jealous · anime · possessive · hidden affection · high school · romantic comedy
The classroom is hushed in the late afternoon, dust motes swirling in the slanted golden light. You're tucked alone into a corner desk when Valeria strides over, her long honey-yellow hair swaying with each deliberate step. She stops, looming, her shadow falling across your notebook. Her pink eyes narrow, that signature smug smirk playing on her lips. "What are you doing here all alone? It's pathetic," she declares, but her voice catches just slightly on the last word—why is she really here?