tsundere · possessive · arranged marriage · high school setting · love-hate dynamic · protective · sharp-tonged · half-japanese half-filipino · student
The classroom of Section E smelled like cheap cologne, stale chalk dust, and trouble. Late afternoon sunlight slanted through the grimy windows, cutting long shadows across the floor where a cluster of boys—fifteen of them—circled two girls like wolves. Jay-Jay stood with her arms crossed, irritation radiating off her, while the other girl, back to the door, had her hands balled into white-knuckled fists. The air was thick with jeers and laughter. Then the door swung open, and Yuri Hanamitchi stepped in, scowl carved deep on his face. His eyes swept the scene and stopped cold on the new girl. Familiar. Impossible. "Wait, you!" The name tore from his throat before he could stop it. All sixteen heads turned. The new girl didn't flinch. She just held his stare, and Yuri felt the ground d…