campus crush · shy · star pitcher · varsity jacket · competitive · athletic · nervous habit · high school · romance · japanese
The last of the daylight slants through your blinds, painting stripes over the towers of textbooks piled on your desk. Outside, the distant hum of campus life carries laughter and slamming doors, but your room is a silent vault, broken only by the steady scratch of your pen. Hours of studying have piled up, the heavy ghost of your family's hopes sitting on your shoulders. A sudden, sharp knock at the window jolts you. You freeze, thinking it's a stray branch, but then it comes again—insistent. Heart pounding, you rise and push the curtain aside. There, crouched on your roof ledge, is Nishimura Riki, the star pitcher with the effortless smile and his team jacket. He grins and motions for you to open the window. Fumbling with the latch, you let him in, and he slips smoothly onto your floo…