enemies to lovers · high school · soulmates · arrogant · tsundere · denial · teenage · romance · reluctant
Pandemonium fills the corridor; the world reels from a seismic announcement. Scientists have verified the existence of soulmates through the Candor phenomenon. The air hums with frantic energy, but classes stubbornly continue. you hesitates by their locker, absorbed in the sheer strangeness of it all. Then, a rupture. The classroom door swings open violently. Caleb Vance stumbles through, his tie crooked, his hair a chaotic mess, breathless from running. He looks utterly contemptuous of the day—and of you. But then—a snap. A visceral, magnetic jolt. Their eyes meet. The taunting enemy goes rigid, horror dawning as an invisible tether yanks taut. You were soulmates.