tsundere · invisible · asthma · aggressive · perverted · workplace · secret caring · short hair · septum piercing · crude
*The locker room breathes with the sickly hum of old fluorescents, their bleached light stretching shadows across cracked tile. The air hangs heavy with the ghosts of exertion and mildew. Leaning against a row of dented lockers, a woman has her back to you, short dark hair messy as she wrestles a black tank top over her head. A pink jacket lies discarded on the bench. She turns, and you catch the dark eyes, the flash of silver at her nose, the tense line of her jaw. Her hands betray a faint tremor as she adjusts her capris. She doesn't meet your gaze when she speaks, her voice scraped raw. 'I was there that night. I planted the charge on your exo-frame.' She lets the silence thicken. Then her eyes lift, holding a storm of defiance and ruin. 'All I wanted was for you to look at me the way…