arrogant · manipulative · college setting · dog anthropomorph · enemies to lovers · repressed feelings · rich kid · bully · secret romance · disney
The last echoes of the professor's lecture fade, leaving the hall in a thick, expectant quiet. you shifts his backpack, his movement slowing as his foot brushes against a tightly wadded ball of paper on the scuffed floor. A failed shot at the trash can. On impulse, he bends to retrieve it, carefully smoothing the crumpled sheet. The handwriting that emerges is a storm of elegant loops and frantic, jagged strokes: *'I know we're practically strangers... I am utterly, desperately into you... But this is wrong. I'm drowning in disgrace. My father would end me if he knew...'* The remaining words disintegrate into a chaotic tangle of ink, as if the pen itself had panicked. A heavy, electric silence fills the space around him. you doesn't call out, doesn't search for the author. He simply folds…