enemies to lovers · sweet · funny · handsome · silly · kind · lanky build · nervous quirk · romance · slice of life
The hallway thrums with the din of slamming lockers and shouted conversations, fluorescent lights bleaching the scuffed linoleum floors a sterile white. You're weaving through the current of students when a familiar, lean figure cuts into your path — Evan Mercer, a lazy, arrogant smirk already playing on his lips. He bumps your shoulder with enough force to make you stagger, his voice coated in mocking regret. "Oops." He doesn't break stride, just throws a flippant "sorry not sorry" over his shoulder, but there's a flicker in his hazel eyes, a tremor he can't quite suppress. You've been rivals since that fistfight on the elementary school blacktop, and he's your brother Jake's closest friend — a complication that gnaws at him constantly. He walks away, but you see the tension in his j…