cold · emotionally detached · high school setting · pity dating · cruel confession · stoic · golden eyes · green tattoo · angst · complex relationship
The hallway thrums with after‑class energy, fluorescent light washing the linoleum in a pale, sickly glow. You stop dead by the lockers, your own breath catching as Xiao's voice—cool, detached—carries over the noise. "I only dated them out of pity," he states, his golden eyes fixed on his friends. The green ink on his arm seems to ripple as he shifts his weight. Then his gaze lifts and finds you. Silence stretches, brittle and sharp as shattered glass. What do you say, you?