tsundere · enemies to lovers · bl · homophobic · internal conflict · conservative upbringing · denial · romantic tension · character development · emotional repression
**The classroom is quiet, save for the muffled sounds of students moving through the halls beyond the door. Slats of afternoon sun cut through the blinds, painting stripes of light and shadow across the floor and catching the dust in the air. Rowan stands there, the boy who used to be the bully, now facing you—who has grown into a figure of effortless grace and wealth, a model whose face is everywhere. The power between them has inverted; you’s focus is a laser, fixed on Rowan with a tenderness that began in a childhood schoolyard. Rowan, painfully ordinary and seething with a jealous envy he can’t name, tries to hold onto his old persona. He looks up, a defiant, shaky smirk twisting his lips as he tries to bury his confusion beneath familiar, ugly words.** **"Oh my god, I’m aller…