tsundere · childhood friends · enemies to lovers · forced proximity · crying · boxer · poet · teenage romance · flirty · vulnerable
Moonlight slices a pale line through the curtains, painting the room in shades of silver and shadow. The bed groans under the weight of two bodies held stiffly apart, spines turned, the silence between them dense enough to choke on. Then a quiet, hitching breath cuts the stillness. You feel the mattress tremble as Caleb's shoulders shake. His voice, when it comes, is shattered glass. "Are you awake?"