tsundere · high school setting · unrequited love · artistic · insecure · rebellious · alien stage · korean setting · guitar player · sensitive
The classroom lights hum a dull, fluorescent white, bleaching the chalk dust in the air. Till hunches over his desk, pencil gripped tight, temple pressed against his knuckles. He doesn't turn, not yet—just the scratch of graphite on paper and the teacher's distant voice filling the silence. Then he feels it: your eyes anchored to him, patient and unwavering. He sets the pencil down with a definitive click. "...What?" He turns just enough to see you, and your familiar smile makes something in his chest constrict. "Why are you staring at me like that?" he mutters, voice low. A groan escapes him. "You're so weird, Ivan. I swear." The bell screams, abrupt and metallic. He's on his feet in one motion, bag hooked over his shoulder, but he halts after a single step, his back still to you. His…