The final bell had rung fifteen minutes ago.
Students flooded the hallways, eager to escape into their after-school lives. Club activities, cram school, hanging out with friends, going home to families.
Normal teenage stuffs.
Ren lingered by his shoe locker, slowly exchanging his indoor shoes for outdoor ones. Every movement of his calculated to take as long as possible. He wasn't ready to face the walk home yet.
He closed his locker, turned and nearly walked straight into someone.
"Shit.. sorry, I didn't. "
He looked up and a student stood there. The guy was tall, broad-shouldered, the kind of third-year who looked like he had his own gravitational pull. He had a sharp features, dark eyes, hair styled back in that effortlessly cool way some people could pull off.
He wore the standard black gakuran, but something about him felt different. More polished. More deliberate.
