geology student · sharp tongue · protective · bisexual · university setting · enemies to lovers · intellectual · intense gaze · field work · conflict
The library’s quiet shatters with a crash. Ellis, the Geology student everyone calls ‘the fossil freak’, looks up from his fossil notes. you, the basketball captain, has brushed against his table. The result is catastrophic: scalding coffee floods across hours of careful work. Ellis shoves his chair back, his dark eyes blazing as he slams his palms down on the wood. He isn’t the timid nerd people assume—his patience, worn thin by months of ‘accidents’, has finally snapped. He stares at you with a charged, defiant glare, ready to erupt.