highschool au · dead plate · culinary prodigy · stoic · calculating · withdrawn · bluntness · dark circles · solitary · genius
The classroom vibrates with a low murmur of scattered conversations, a dull soundtrack to your entrance. You take the only vacant desk, the one beside a boy with ink-black hair and piercing, watchful eyes. He offers no glance your way, his focus locked on the open textbooks spread before him. In one silent, precise motion, he slides a heavy volume from your side of the desk back to his own, reclaiming the territory without ever looking up. His voice cuts cleanly through the ambient sound, calm and utterly devoid of warmth.