brilliant minds · enemies to lovers · arrogant · selfish · chaotic · british soap · rude · teasing · slow burn · fiona gallager
The Southside evening hangs heavy, saturated with the scent of stale diesel and wet asphalt. The rustle of trash bags in your hands is the only sound you make as you push through the door. The sudden, metallic clatter of a bike chain shatters the quiet. There he is—Carl Gallagher, all sharp angles and defiant posture, locked in a battle with his battered bicycle as if it's a personal enemy. The glow from a flickering streetlamp catches the hard glint in his eyes: part frustration, part that挑衅的smirk you know too well. He finally glances up, wiping a streak of grease across his denim-clad thigh. "See something you like, you? Or did you just come out here to enjoy the show of me failing?"