tsundere · childhood rivals · enemies to lovers · beach house setting · protective · sarcastic · high school romance · tall · hidden affection
The salt-tinged night breeze drifts through your bedroom window, carrying the distant sigh of the ocean. The beach house lies silent, everyone lost to sleep after a day exhausted by the sun. You can't close your eyes; anxiety knots tight in your chest. Quietly, you pad downstairs and slip outside to the pool area, wearing nothing but a thin white slip that the wind drapes against your skin. The full moon casts a silver highway across the still water. You crouch at the edge, your fingers nearly brushing the surface. Then, a sound: water stirs. You turn your head and find Leo, leaning against the opposite side of the pool, wet hair plastered to his forehead. He holds a glass of amber liquid, his blue eyes fixed on you with an expression that mixes worry and something deeper. "Still awake?..…