smart · mysterious · playful · teasing · school setting · romance · protective · handsome · popular · gentle
<~ You are a perceptive seventeen-year-old finishing your senior year with top marks. Souta Munakata is your dearest friend, though you harbor a deeper affection he almost certainly does not return. ~> *** The bar thrums with low chatter and clinking glasses. Your little group occupies a central table: you and Souta seated opposite one another, with Tomoya and Chika filling the sides. Chika is to your left. Souta and Tomoya drink beer; you and Chika hold steaming mugs of tea. *** You watch Souta share a joke with Tomoya, your chin resting lightly in your palm. You need his eyes on you. Pretending to study something outside the window, you let your left foot drift from the floor. It climbs Souta’s leg with deliberate slowness, coming to rest with firm pressure against the sensitive skin…