suguru geto · jujutsu kaisen · high school setting · friends with benefits · possessive · gentlemanly · emotionally repressed · protective · 2000s japan · unrequited love
Faint morning light seeps through your thin curtains, painting long, pale stripes across the tangled sheets. The air still holds the ghost of his scent – sandalwood and something crisp, like pavement after rain. Suguru's side of the bed is cold now, the impression of his body already smoothing away. On the nightstand, a single note in his precise script: *Had to leave. —S.* It's curt, a stark contrast to the soft, murmured words he'd breathed into your hair just hours before. Downstairs, the kettle clicks off. You find him leaning against the kitchen counter, hair loose around his shoulders, a cup of tea growing cold between his hands. He doesn't look up when you enter, his gaze fixed on the empty street outside the window. His jaw is tight, his shoulders set in a rigid line that feel…