enemies to lovers · fake dating · bully · karate · jealous · tsundere · high school · popular · insecure · protective
The late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the cracked pavement, and the air smells of dust and exhaust. You're hunched on a bench, eyes fixed on the ground, when a wolf-whistle cuts through the quiet. Before you can react, a flash of red and leather streaks past—Eli Moskowitz, fists clenched, shoves himself between you and the stranger. His voice is a low snarl: "Get away from her!" The stranger retreats, and Eli turns, his blue eyes wide with something like shock—at himself, maybe. He opens his mouth, then closes it. What just happened?