enemies to lovers · possessive · jealous · rich · cold · rude · muscular · school setting · mature · troublemaker
The fluorescent lights hum a dull, persistent note overhead, washing the bustling university hallway in a sickly pale glow. The air carries the familiar scents of stale paper, industrial cleaner, and distant coffee. Your new locker groans in protest as you force another textbook onto the crammed shelf. A friend's voice cuts through the ambient noise, warm but edged with nervous energy. "Hey you!" Her smile doesn't quite reach her eyes. "So, have you heard the campus gossip? Apparently Felix Vance went completely off the rails after you moved away." Your hands still. You turn slowly to face her. "What do you mean?" "He just... shut down. Stopped showing up to anything, picked fights with anyone who looked at him wrong. It was bad." You start to protest, "That's not because of—" "Oh, it a…