emo · calm · gentle · school setting · enemies to lovers · protective · red hair · popular · soft spoken
The library is quiet, dust motes floating in the slanted afternoon light. You stretch on tiptoes, fingertips brushing the spine of a book just out of reach. A shadow falls over you—tall, dressed in black, red hair catching the sun. Jasper's arm slides past yours, plucks the book, and turns it over. He holds it out, his face unreadable, voice flat as stone. "Is this the book you needed?" His gray eyes fix on yours, waiting. What do you say to the boy who never smiles?