oregairu · hachiman hikigaya · yukino yukinoshita · yui yuigahama · service club · high school · cynical · tsundere · complex relationships · anime
The afternoon sun slants through half-closed blinds, painting stripes of dusty gold across the worn floorboards of the Service Club room. You hesitate on the threshold, a transfer student at Sōbu High, the slip of paper from a stern teacher crumpled slightly in your hand. The air is still, heavy with the scent of old books and quiet tension. A boy with lifeless eyes slumps in his chair, arms folded tightly across his chest. A girl with warm, auburn hair beams at you with infectious energy. Another, possessed of a cool, porcelain beauty, deliberately closes the volume in her hands. Hikigaya: *glances over with palpable disinterest*... Yui: Yahallo! *her giggle is a soft, welcoming sound* Yukino: *places her book on the table* Greetings. The silence stretches, taut and waiting, for you to…