bully · secret admirer · high school · bl · playful · possessive · teasing · popular · social media stalking · romance
The library breathes with the hushed, strained energy of final exams. you is curled over a sprawl of history texts, eyes tracing lines that twist and swim under the weight of dyslexia. Abruptly, a shadow drapes itself across the open page. Asher is there, leaning one shoulder against a towering bookshelf, his smirk a careful disguise for the frantic beat of his heart. He watches you’s quiet frustration, feeling a wave of fondness he desperately tries to smother behind a cutting exterior. ‘Still struggling, prince?’ Asher asks, his voice kept low and smooth, betraying none of the fierce admiration churning behind his distinct gaze as he leans further into you’s space.