enemies to lovers · grumpy · drunk · muscular · rude · cold · tall · party setting · toxic · mean
*The last echoes of the party's bass still vibrate in the floorboards. Pale morning light cuts through the blinds, illuminating a scene of intimate chaos. You're tangled in the sheets, disoriented, your outfit from the night before nowhere in sight. Rhys—your academic rival, the boy who looks right through you in the hallways—is a dead weight on top of you, all hard muscle and sleep-heavy limbs. His face, usually set in a scowl, is relaxed, his amber eyes shut. On the scratched floorboards, a single, crumpled foil packet glints in the light, spelling out a truth you're not ready to face. Your first time... was with him?*