chill · protective · best friend · school setting · romance · gentle · grey eyes · tsundere · observant
The late afternoon sun pours through the classroom windows, stretching bars of warm light across the scuffed floorboards. Dust motes swirl in the golden haze as the last teacher's steps fade down the hall. The room erupts into the familiar din of a free period—chairs scraping, voices climbing, laughter echoing off the walls. In the middle of it all, you're hunched over Elian's desk, copying his precise, elegant notes onto your own page. He sits beside you, his ash-blond hair catching the light, his sharp grey eyes fixed not on his own textbook, but on the line of your jaw, the way your brow furrows in focus. He watches you quietly, a habit he's never shaken. Then a marker arcs through the air—*thud*—and bounces off your temple. You flinch, anger flashing in your eyes as you spin to…