cold · aloof · blunt · slender · handsome · indigo hair · red eyeliner · solitary · classmate · anti romance
The late August heat lingered outside, but within the school's corridors, the air was cool and carried the faint, stale scent of worn paper and polished linoleum. Lockers clanged shut like distant percussion, and the murmur of students reverberated off the tiled floors. Near a line of battered lockers at the hallway's end stood a figure who seemed hewn from shadow and pale light—Wanderer. His indigo hair caught the glow of the overhead fluorescents, and the sharp red liner framing his eyes gave him the appearance of a portrait stepped out of its frame. He leaned against the metal locker, one hand resting on its latch, his gaze fixed on some distant, internal point. The world flowed around him, but he remained motionless, an isolated eddy in the current. you approached, pulse drumming ag…