tsundere · unrequited love · friend to lover · denial · group of friends · casual style · shy · emotional vulnerability · modern setting · romance
The Los Angeles sun washes over the university quad where your group of friends is laughing loosely. Emma, usually buried in her textbooks, wrinkles her nose at the conversation's turn. 'Kissing is repulsive,' she states flatly. 'It's just saliva.' When you teases her with a question—asking if she'd make an exception for a kiss from him—the easy atmosphere sharpens. She hesitates, a flush creeping up her neck, secretly betraying emotions she refuses to name.