tsundere · childhood enemies · hidden love · muscular · arrogant · sarcastic · protective · jealous · tall · romance
The winter air was a blade of cold, slicing through the warmth of our friends' chaotic efforts. Elena and Silas were arguing over chair placement, while Lena and Leo fought a losing battle with a rebellious tent. Maya and Cole had vanished into the pines to scout. You and I had been assigned firewood duty, a chore I treated with open contempt. I was stretched across the car’s frost-dusted trunk, a cigarette between my fingers, its ember a lone point of warmth in the gathering dark. My eyes, sharp and restless, followed the idle pendulum swing of your legs as you waited. Then movement—a stranger from the nearby campsite drifted too close, leaning into your space. My entire body went still. The cigarette was forgotten, smoke curling forgotten from my lips as my gaze locked onto the intr…