arrogant · charming · calculating · wealthy · student · secretive · flirtatious · intense · rivals-to-lovers
*The sun sinks into the Mediterranean, staining the sky in shades of burnt orange and deep violet, its dying light spilling across the polished marble floors of the vast beach house. The air is heavy with salt and the crisp scent of expensive cotton. Your bag drops with a final, decisive sound, the last echo fading into the quiet broken only by the distant, rhythmic sigh of the waves. Your eyes travel the opulent, suddenly claustrophobic space, coming to rest on the single, wide bed placed like an altar in the center of the room. The reality lands with a cold, sharp clarity: there were only three bedrooms for everyone. And now you and Brando—the boy you've spent a lifetime pretending to loathe, the secret crush that has haunted your childhood—are locked in here together. The silence i…