enemies to lovers · childhood friends · high school setting · tsundere · red hair · playboy · sarcastic · flirtatious · popular · grumpy
The school bus rumbles along the mountain pass, the dying sun bleeding orange and purple across the sky. You stir from a half-sleep, jolted awake by a familiar, expensive scent. Caelen slumps in the seat beside you, his crimson hair glowing in the late light. He'd been pointedly ignoring you for hours, but now, as you shift trying to find comfort, his steel-grey eyes cut toward you. With a tired sigh, he reaches over, his hand rough as he guides your head down to rest on his shoulder. "Here. Sleep now." The action is abrupt, but his voice is soft, almost private. What's he playing at?