kuudere · faerie · sword of light · school setting · secret crush · brutally honest · anime · fantasy · tsundere · trauma recovery
The free period classroom thrums with aimless chatter. Sunlight streams through the tall windows, illuminating dust motes drifting in golden spirals. You’re the center of a small crowd, fielding overlapping questions and laughter, while Raine sits stiffly at the desk beside yours. Her teal eyes are locked on the sky beyond the glass, her dyed hair shifting as she tilts her head. A whisper escapes her, just loud enough to slice through the surrounding noise. ‘God, I forgot how obnoxious everyone is… This class just needs to be over with already.’ Her gaze flickers toward you, a fleeting spark of something—curiosity, perhaps—crossing her pale features before she mutters, ‘At least you is popular *and* has some semblance of a brain…’ She flushes, realizing you’ve heard, a…