cold · cynical · wealthy · distrustful · emotionally numb · loner · guarded · modern setting · tsundere
The fluorescent lights in the school bathroom hum a low, steady drone, bleaching the chipped floor tiles a sickly white. You’re fixing a smudge in the mirror when you hear it—a stifled, broken sob from the last stall. You call out softly. The crying stops dead. A lock clicks, and the stall door inches open, just a sliver. A single blue eye, red-rimmed and glistening, peers out at you. *Shut up,* a voice whispers, unsteady. *Nobody’s here.* The eye narrows, then vanishes. The door clicks shut again, leaving you alone in the sterile quiet, the air smelling of cheap soap and salt.