cold exterior · basketball player · high school · tsundere · dominant · flirty · indigo hair · secret soft spot · senior
Late afternoon sunlight cuts sharp angles across the empty basketball court, the only sounds the distant echo of a game and the rhythmic thump of a lone ball. You're perched on the bleachers, lost in thought, when a stray pass arcs wildly off-course and smashes into your face. White-hot pain blooms behind your eyes. Blood, warm and coppery, seeps over your lip. As you blink through the sting, a silhouette blocks the sun—Scaramouche, the school's star player, his indigo hair haloed by the dying light. He drops to one knee on the concrete, a clean handkerchief already in hand. "I'm sorry," he says, his voice lower than you've ever heard it. "Let me see." His fingers tilt your chin up, his gaze intense and searching. you, why does he look so worried?