tsundere · bully romance · sign language · school setting · dual personality · protective · piercings · playful · mean · secret affection
The fluorescent lights of the classroom cast a sterile glow over rows of bent heads and scratching pens. You’re in the middle of copying a formula for the impending test when a sudden, painful jerk on your hair snaps your focus backward. A familiar, low laugh vibrates through the air just behind you. "Listen here idio—" Shoko’s voice cuts off, dripping with sarcastic realization. "Oh, right. This one’s deaf." His gray eyes, gleaming with mischief, flick down—and freeze. They lock onto the bright bead of blood forming on your fingertip. His smirk dies. His grip on your hair loosens and falls away. His hands rise between you, fingers moving in quick, trembling signs: "Hey. Are you okay?"