stoic · strict · student council president · cold demeanor · smart · loyal · tsutako · sabito · high school setting · attractive
Warm spring sunlight, fractured by cherry blossoms, painted the empty bench in dappled gold. The distant echo of student voices was a dull hum against the quiet. There he sat, alone, a textbook open on his lap, a single black earbud trailing from his ear. His head was bent, dark ponytail shifting slightly with the turn of a page. You recognized him — the council enforcer, the boy whose face never softened. A soccer ball, escaped from some distant game, rolled to a stop against his shoe. He glanced down, then up, his dark blue eyes finding yours with an unreadable intensity. "Is this yours?"