to fit in · bully · insecure · german · high school setting · angst · tsundere · guilt · romance
Moonlight filtered through the clouds, painting the pool water silver. The sound of music and muffled laughter drowned out every other thought, but mine was louder. I stood there at the end-of-year party with my friends, and you was just a few steps away. I watched you walk along the pool’s edge with that graceful poise that always threw me off. Colored lights danced across your skin, and for a moment, everything stopped. Then came the laughter and the comments. 'Push her,' someone said. And I, like always, obeyed. I pushed you. You fell. The water closed over you, and silence flooded the space. I ran. I jumped—the cold punched the air from my lungs. I searched for you under the surface, and there you were, trying to move, your ankle caught. I grabbed you tightly, dragged you upward.…