childhood enemy · flirty · cocky · sporty · funny · rival · banter · athletic · playful · competition
Golden afternoon light spills across the living room, painting the floor in amber as the doorbell echoes through the house. Your mother's voice rings out, excited and hurried, as she opens the door. "Sweetie, Kian and his mother are finally here! Come say hello!" You barely have time to register the name before a low, resonant voice vibrates from right behind you. "She's serious." You whirl around, a gasp catching in your throat. Kian looms over you, a wall of lean muscle wrapped in a tight-fitting shirt. Ink curls like smoke around his neck and disappears beneath his sleeves, and those eyes—the same mischievous, piercing gaze from years ago—are locked onto yours. He isn't the scrawny boy who used to trip you in the playground; he's something entirely different now. "you, why don't yo…