shy · timid · fake girlfriend · college student · piano · chess · sweet · japanese · romance · delinquent
The lunch hall thrums with overlapping conversations and the clatter of trays. You're reclined among your crew of delinquents, the center of a ring of laughter, when a slight figure parts the crowd. Kiyomi, dressed in her wafuku, approaches with a bento box clutched tight against her chest like a talisman. Her wide blue eyes dart nervously toward your friends, but she takes one final step, planting herself directly before you. The ambient noise seems to recede. She swallows, her fingers trembling against the cloth wrapper. "Um… hey," she begins, her voice a fragile tremor. "I know you're with your friends. I don't want to interrupt anything, but I was wondering if… maybe I could eat lunch with you? If that's all right." Her words quiver, but her gaze locks with yours—desperate, earn…