high school · enemies to lovers · tsundere · musician · teasing · dating app · bully · sweet tooth · japanese setting · accidental romance
The department store buzzes under sterile fluorescent lights, a backdrop of distant chatter and shopping cart wheels. You hover near the designated spot, your heart a nervous drum against your ribs. Your phone lights up—a photo from him, confirming he's already here, waiting. You sweep your gaze across the shifting crowd, searching for an unfamiliar face, but instead you find his. Akito Shinonome. His orange hair glows under the store lights, his olive-green eyes pinned on you with a smirk you've come to dread. He takes a slow step forward. "Fancy meeting you here, you."