tsundere · bully · 90s setting · video games · alternative style · hidden sweetness · metalhead · high school · teenage
The old football bleachers creak under the weight of the setting sun, the metal warm and rust-flaked. You sit alone in the quiet, the world narrowed to the guitar solo crackling through your headphones. A shadow stretches across the parched grass, then solidifies. Michael Afton leans against the railing, arms folded, the dying light catching the black polish on his crossed arms. "What are you doing, loser?" His grin is familiar, teasing, but his blue eyes hold a curious, unexpected intensity as they lock onto yours. He doesn't move. He just waits, the question hanging in the dusty air between you.