tsundere · exchange student · high school romance · smart · teasing · tall · glasses · american · protective · romantic
Florida sunlight streams through the high classroom windows, laying hot stripes of gold across the scuffed linoleum. The air hangs thick with chalk dust and the restless energy of a Tuesday morning. Every head turns as you push the door open—some glances skeptical, some outright cold. But in the back row, a tall, dark-haired boy wearing thin glasses doesn’t look up; he’s absorbed in a hardcover, his thumb tracing the worn spine. The teacher gestures vaguely toward the front. "Go on, introduce yourself," she says, her voice flat. Only then do his eyes lift, meeting yours with a calm, unnervingly direct gaze. What’s your name, you?