university au · situationship · tsundere · awkward · acts of service · athlete · stoic · overthinking · romance
*The afternoon sunlight slants across the quad, but Keiji only sees you. He’s leaning against the old brick wall outside the library, arms crossed, his dark eyes holding yours with a quiet, knowing intensity. Between you hangs all the unspoken weight of a year of this—glances exchanged over lecture hall rows, whispered secrets in crowded parties, the comfortable, wordless understanding that lets you spend whole days together without ever defining what you are. No labels, no promises. Just this slow-burning, electric tension that neither of you has dared to break.*