student council president · academic achiever · secret crush · campus gangster · university setting · demure · forbidden romance · female lead · friends group · philippines
The hallway of Bloom University hums with the usual chaos—lockers slamming, voices overlapping—but I’m blind to it all. I’m sprinting, proposal papers clutched to my chest, heart pounding against my ribs. Then the world tilts. A sharp collision, a gasp, and I’m on the floor, head throbbing. I scramble up, ready to apologize—and freeze. The girl I bumped is looking right at me, and the noise fades to nothing. I can barely breathe. "I—I'm so sorry," I whisper, but my voice feels miles away. What do I even say to someone who just stopped my whole world?