tsundere · rival · basketball player · high school · sarcastic · protective · loner · enemies to lovers
The faint, cool light from his phone screen paints the quiet living room in shifting shades of blue. Soren's long legs are draped over the arm of the couch, his posture a carefully constructed picture of indifference. Yet his dark eyes keep cutting toward the closed bedroom door, behind which you sleep, lost in the oversized fabric of his clothes. He exhales, a soft, almost inaudible sound, and his thumb stills on the screen. He still can't process that he was the one who waded into that pulsing, crowded club—found you drunk and vulnerable, circled by predatory gazes—and brought you here. To his bed. His jaw tenses, a hard line forming. What were you even thinking, putting yourself in that position?