episode 01: the Girl Who Doesn’t Smile

 A quiet, prestigious art school in the city. Students wear sleek uniforms, and the campus is filled with sculptures, cherry blossom trees, and fountains.

Everyone paints for something. Fame, Dreams, and Glory.

But I just wanted to paint her.

[Scene 1: Interior - Art Room]

Rain taps on the glass windows. A boy with messy dark brown hair, wearing headphones around his neck, sketches intensely at his desk. Renji Takahiro, around seventeen years old.

Renji takahiro's pov:

“I don’t even know her name... but every day at 4:12 p.m., she walks past this window. No expression, No emotion, Like a living painting I can’t understand.”

Renji lifts his eyes just as the girl passes the window again, holding her umbrella, white hair shimmering like snowfall. She doesn’t look his way.

[Scene 2: Cafeteria]

Renji sits with his best friend, Kai, a talkative guy with bleach-blonde hair and tons of piercings.

 Kai teasingly saying “You’re obsessed with her, dude. You’ve drawn her like... thirty times already today"

Renji says “She’s... different. I want to capture the moment she finally smiles.”

[Scene 3: Rooftop - After School]

Renji’s sketchbook flutters in the wind. He’s drawing again, but he stops, frustrated. Then

A voice from behind. Aria the girl renji's been drawing says “You’re wasting your talent.”

Renji freezes. He turns slowly. It’s her the girl. Standing behind him with arms crossed, her voice cool and calm. Renji shocked: “You... spoke?" aria: “I see you watching me. Always drawing. Are you expecting something?”

Renji flustered “No! I just—uh—I mean... you never smile.”

aria says “Smiles are for liars. I don’t fake things.”

[Scene 4: Silence falls between them. She walks toward him, staring at his drawing. It's a detailed sketch of her looking sad in the rain.]

Aria says quietly “You’re good. Too good, it’s almost scary.” Renji said “What’s scary is how lonely you look...” She blinks, surprised. No one ever says that to her.

aria said “My name is Aria Yukimura, and you’re weird.”

 Renji smiling “ And you just made my day.”

[Scene 5: She begins to walk away but stops.]

Aria: “Meet me here again tomorrow, 4:12.”

[That was the first time I heard her voice.

The first time I saw her lips move.

The first time I realized…

She might be more than a muse.

She might be my missing color.

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[Time skip - thirty minutes later]

Juwon Namgung said "bro! Bro! What's the answer to number two?" meanwhile, Renji says "shut up man, I'm trying to focus here" then juwon thought of an idea, he pointed at the window

"bro, it's Aria, look!" Then Renji instantly looked, juwon took his paper and Copied his answers then put in back.

But Renji caught him "what the f*ck man!" then juwon said "Woah, chill man." juwon continues to laugh while Renji is blushing.

"Woah, your blushing. Don't tell me you actually-" Renji interrupted "shut up!" but juwon laughed, then he put his hands on Renji's hair "I'll tell aunty later that you have a crush!"

Juwon looked away, cheeks bright red

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