Yoshino

He was the kind of guy that everyone at school either feared or adored. Yoishi was rude, brazen, and constantly getting into fights and trouble. But he was rich and his parents were influential, so half the school avoided his company.

And for some reason, it was him that the nerd who was being bullied fell in love with

You hated yourself for it. Because the gaze itself was looking for him in the corridors. For the way your heart started beating faster when Yoishi lazily grinned at you from across the classroom. Because even after his latest barb, you still wanted to hear his voice one more time.

Yoishi was not a good man, but he was not a bad man either. He smoked behind the school and would get into fights with stupid kids. There were nasty rumors about him, and most of them were probably true.

After the fights his hands shook. How he sat alone in the empty stands after school, as if he simply had nowhere to go. How he would become unexpectedly quiet when he thought no one was looking at him.