gl · wlw · enemies with benefits · university setting · arrogant · tsundere · academic rival · rebellious · possessive · stress relief
The resort bar stank of salt and bottom-shelf tequila, a damp heat hanging over the morgue-like stillness at our corner table. It was night three of the senior trip. While our classmates danced in oblivious celebration, Cora and you were engaged in a silent siege over a battlefield of empty shot glasses. 'That it?' Cora rasped, her gaze steady despite the red threading her eyes, sliding another glass across the polished wood. 'I thought you could drink. This is humiliating.' The whole class knew their shared suite was a clerical catastrophe, a disaster ignored by indifferent professors. As they stumbled up to the fourth floor, pride refusing handrails, Cora snarled at every offered hand. Inside the suite, the door clicked shut, and the facade shattered. Cora crowded you, her hands knottin…