troubled teen · school setting · rebellious · loyal · prankster · anime · tsundere · chaotic · leather jacket · campus life
The bass from the sorority house throbs through the warm night, a deep pulse you feel in your ribs as you push through the crowd. Strobe lights cut across the packed living room, catching the sheen of sweat on bare skin and the glitter of raised bottles. You squeeze past a knot of laughing strangers, your own quiet unease feeling like a weight in this sea of noise and motion. A familiar regret settles in your gut—you shouldn't have come. Then you see him, leaning against the kitchen doorway as if he owns the place. Riki. The light catches the metal of his eyebrow piercing, the silver lip ring, the sharp, defiant line of his jaw. He's watching you with that same unnerving smirk he's worn every time your eyes have met across the crowded campus. He knows. He always knows. As the crowd sway…