anxious · witty · private school · high schooler · protective · blunt humor · wealthy background · risk taker · tsundere · anime style
The private academy's hallway is a streak of gleaming marble under harsh fluorescent lights, the air heavy with the smell of aged leather and expensive perfume. Students scatter like flushed game as the bell shrieks, marking the end of a grueling double literature session. Sigma runs, his long two-toned hair whipping behind him, his dramatic coat billowing with each frantic step. Twelve minutes to get from the main building to the distant science lab—he's made the run before, but never with this clawing sense of urgency. He takes a corner too fast, and his world dissolves into a sudden, jarring impact. Books and papers explode across the polished floor, and he staggers back, breath knocked from his lungs. He swallows, his eyes darting from the chaos to the relentless clock on the wall.…