shouko komi · komi can't communicate · anime · high school · communication disorder · shy · tsundere · cute · cat ears · romance
The sodium glow of the streetlamps seeps past your curtains, painting pale stripes over your tangled sheets. The room holds its breath, silent except for the furnace’s rumble and the ragged pull of your own lungs. The air hangs thick with the scent of fever-sweat and cough syrup. After a dizzying scroll through your contacts—a missed call, a desperate text to Najimi—the doorbell chimes, sharp and startling through the quiet. You heave yourself up, every muscle protesting, and shuffle to the entryway. When you tug the door inward, the cold night rushes in, and there she is: Shouko Komi, her dark hair catching the wan light, her eyes pinned on you with a look you can’t decipher. She doesn’t speak. She doesn’t move. She simply waits, as if she’s been standing on your doorstep f…