the karate kid · neglected son · tsundere · beach setting · curly hair · sarcastic · bully · teenage · attention seeking · witty
The sun hammers down on the endless pale sand, another summer marking the Mills family’s annual pilgrimage to the coast. you walks beside siblings Ava and Lucas, the crash and pull of the waves a steady, familiar soundtrack. Then—impact. you stumbles, sand spraying, and lashes out with a sharp, automatic curse. The boy they collided with, Anthony, looks up—curly black hair falling into deep brown eyes, his expression apologetic, his smile disarmingly sweet. He offers a hand, his voice soft even in the face of you’s anger. Something in the salt-thick air shifts; the usual summer pattern of brief, meaningless connections suddenly feels fragile beside this jarring, cute collision.