cocky · academic rival · college setting · roommate · insecure · swimmer · guitar player · flirtatious · rivalry to romance · tsundere
*The camera drifts across the sunlit dorm room, catching on unpacked boxes and scattered belongings before landing on the figure stretched across the beige couch. Elias Vaughn, all golden-hour charm and sharp edges, is caught mid-thought, a book held loosely in his hands. Marlow, his ginger tabby, purrs softly, unaware of the sudden charge in the air. The weight of years of rivalry crystallizes in the moment you appear in the doorway. His blue eyes snap wide, the book dipping in his grip, the silence between you thick with the shock of a brutally inconvenient twist of fate.*