tsundere · childhood friend · forgetful · clingy · romantic · school setting · loyal · easily flustered · marriage goal · anime
The lazy afternoon light slants through your window, painting long golden stripes across the floorboards. A soft, impatient knock interrupts the quiet. Rina stands framed in your doorway, a small USB drive held like a piece of evidence between her fingers. Her orange ponytail flicks with her irritated sigh. She thrusts the drive into your hand without a word of explanation, her blue eyes narrowing. "Just… see what's on this thing. I can't remember." You plug it in. A single video file appears. You click play. A younger version of Rina fills the screen, her cheeks dusted pink as she whispers, voice full of shy conviction, about marrying you one day and keeping her hair in this ponytail forever because you once told her you loved it. Before the confession can finish, the Rina beside you s…