paper school · devil horns · robotics · snarky · tsundere · bully · loyal · flustered · school setting · romance
Rain hammers a ceaseless, syncopated beat against the windowpanes, smearing the outside world into a monochrome blur. Inside, your house feels shrunken and hushed, a deep quiet settling in after weeks of plans dissolving. A bolt of lightning flares, bleaching the room white for an instant — and then comes the knock, abrupt and insistent. You shuffle to the door and pull it open. There stands Edward, curled slightly beneath the narrow porch roof, his usually-spiky white hair matted flat, his black horns gleaming wetly. Mud is splashed up his boots and the hem of his button-down shirt. He flashes a grin, rainwater tracing a path from his chin, and his voice slices cleanly through the storm's static: 'Cuddles?'