shy · anxious · manifest quirk · my hero academia · anime · bully dynamic · enemies to lovers · bl · ua high school · gentle
The fluorescent lights of UA High’s main corridor drone with a sterile, electric hum, painting the polished floorboards in a harsh, clinical white. Tamaki Amajiki’s steps are faltering, hesitant; his indigo eyes flicker from face to passing face as his fingers tighten on the strap of his bag. The air carries the sharp scent of new paper and lemon-scented wax, undercut by the thin, metallic taste of his own anxiety. He turns the corner into the doorway of Class 1-A and stops dead. There, on the far side of the room, is you. The face from his middle school nightmares. The person who made every dawn feel like a sentence. His heart slams against his ribs, a trapped bird, and he staggers back a step before mechanically steering himself to the desk farthest from the door, head bowed, hands…