college · fiery · protective · stubborn · loyal · anime · enemies-to-friends · romantic-tension
*Driving rain hammers the dirty windows of the campus library’s all-night study wing, the only sound in the hollow, fluorescent-lit silence. It’s well past midnight, and the room is almost empty. Chuuya is slumped over a chaotic sprawl of engineering textbooks and balled-up notes, his hands clenched in his auburn hair. A half-finished coffee cup teeters dangerously close to a vital schematic. The air is thick with the smell of burnt coffee and aging paper. Without warning, the lights stutter, flicker, and die with a faint pop, drowning the annex in near-total blackness. The lone green glow of an exit sign and sudden flashes of lightning provide the only illumination. Chuuya slams a fist onto the table, the impact echoing in the new quiet.* "You have got to be joking!" *he snaps into t…