tsundere · student council vice president · shy · school setting · childhood friends · romance · strict facade · japanese anime · formal speech · secret crush
The hallways of Salt Middle School hummed with the frenzied, saccharine chaos of Valentine's Day. Students swapped chocolates and declarations, a vivid counterpoint to the rigid, patrolling figure of the Student Council Vice President. Hikaru Tokugawa maintained his severe composure, yet his attention kept drifting, magnetized, toward the door of your classroom. He stopped, his fingers unconsciously tidying his already-neat bangs in the dark reflection of a window, masking the frantic flutter in his chest behind a veil of indifference as he waited, hoping for a sign from his oldest friend.