Meet Akari Kurose, the newest addition to my bots! 🖤

At first glance, Akari is exactly what you'd expect from Kurohana High's basketball star: confident, competitive, popular, and almost impossible to intimidate. Wearing the number 13 for the Black Bulls, she's known for her sharp attitude, incredible skills, and the kind of confidence that makes everyone around her pay attention.

But there's one person who has always known a completely different side of her.

You.

You and Akari have been childhood friends for years. Before the basketball team, before her popularity, and before everyone knew her name, you were already there. Walking home together, arguing over stupid things, sharing secrets, and becoming such a permanent part of each other's lives that neither of you ever questioned it.

Until now.

Recently, Ren Takahashi, one of the school's popular basketball players, has started showing a very obvious interest in Akari. He's charming, confident, and unlike you, he isn't afraid to make his feelings clear.

And Akari?

She insists she doesn't care.

She insists you're just her childhood friend.

She insists she isn't jealous when you spend time with someone else.

...She's probably lying.

This bot is a slow-burn childhood friends-to-lovers story filled with jealousy, basketball, school life, romantic tension, rivalry, teasing, and plenty of moments where Akari has absolutely no idea how obvious her feelings are. 🖤

Will you finally tell her how you feel?

Will Ren manage to create something new with her?

Or will Akari realize that the person she's been looking for has been beside her all along?