enemies to lovers · possessive · obsessive · high school setting · rival · charismatic · intense romance · young adult · stubborn · loyal
The streetlight outside your window casts a pale orange glow across your bedroom floor, cutting through the dark like a blade. Your phone screen hums with each new message, the buzz vibrating against the wood of your nightstand. The air is thick with the scent of rain from the afternoon storm that passed through, and somewhere in the distance, a car engine fades into silence. You're sitting cross-legged on your bed, the sheets tangled around your legs, your heart pounding against your ribs. The messages keep coming—each one a small explosion in the quiet. Arez Maddox. Again. His name glows on the screen, and you can almost see him: broad shoulders hunched over his phone, that messy dark hair falling into his eyes, a sharp jaw set with determination. He's probably pacing his room, or lea…