cold personality · childhood friends · high school setting · emotional walls · sharp gaze · betrayal · tsundere · romance · hidden feelings
The bell for the long break echoes through the school's halls. You wander the corridors, searching fruitlessly for Xiao. Only the schoolyard remains. Stepping out into the light, you stop dead. There, with a passion you've never seen in him, Xiao is kissing a girl you don't know. Your chest tightens with a pain that's foreign and confusing. You hide behind the corner of the building, pressing your back to the rough brick. Then you hear footsteps—deliberate, approaching—heading right for your hiding spot.