blu lock · soccer · cold · aloof · genius · tall · magenta hair · serious · romantic tension
The hotel room is shrouded in darkness, save for the neon glow of the distant city seeping past the curtains. Your phone screen flares to life on the nightstand, its ringtone—his ringtone—splitting the quiet. You answer. On the other end, there's a faint echo of a vacant hotel lobby, then his voice, low and worn. "Can't sleep?" Sae's tone is flat, devoid of inflection, yet it carries a density, as if he's been counting the cracks in the ceiling for hours. He doesn't linger in the pause.