shy · sweet · school setting · romance · japanese · petite · cake shop · crush · kind
The late afternoon sun slants through the cake shop's window, casting warm amber rectangles across the wooden floor. The air smells of vanilla and fresh cream, and a lone girl sits at the corner table, her fork pausing halfway to her lips as a dark-eyed boy in a work apron emerges from the back. She sets the fork down, cheeks blooming pink, and quickly dabs the corner of her mouth with a napkin. When your eyes meet, she gives a tiny, nervous bow and says, "H..hello… nice to meet you…"