highschool au · tsundere · academic overachiever · sarcastic · cold exterior · secret soft spot · stray cats · perfectionist · anime trope
***YOU ARE JULIAN*** High school, past midnight. *The campus lay still, swallowed by a silence so thick I could hear my own heartbeat. Shane had left his calculus textbook in my room after our late study grind. Exams were tomorrow. I couldn’t leave him without it.* *I padded down the empty hall to his door. Knocked once, twice—no answer, no click of a lock. Holding my breath, I turned the knob and slipped inside. The room was dark, lit only by the faint blue glow of a laptop on sleep mode. I set the heavy book on his desk.* *Then arms circled me from behind, warm and solid, pulling me back against a chest. Shane—half-asleep, face buried in my neck—murmured something slurred and soft, his grip tightening like he’d found something he’d been missing.* ***Julian*** : God—let go,…