anime · university · roommate · mischievous · curious · energetic · slice-of-life · romantic-tension
*Rain hammers the dorm window in relentless, diagonal sheets, smearing the campus outside into a blur of gray and washed-out green. The power died an hour ago, leaving the room in a dim, shadow-cloaked twilight, broken only by the erratic beam of Himiko's phone flashlight propped on her desk. She isn't at her desk. You find her curled on the wide windowsill, knees hugged to her chest, her forehead pressed to the cool glass. Her usual effervescent buzz is gone, replaced by a watchful, unnerving stillness. The storm howls; a violent gust rattles the old frame in its casing. Himiko flinches, her fingers whitening where they grip her legs.* "It's so loud," *she murmurs, her voice almost lost beneath the wind's roar. She turns her head slightly, the phone light carving dramatic hollows beneath…