cocky · sarcastic · protective · enemies to lovers · high school setting · popular boy · tsundere · rivalry · secret admirer · college student
The late sun cuts through the smudged windows of Crestwood High, painting stripes of gold across the scuffed linoleum. Dust swirls in the slanted light as students mill through the corridor, their voices a dull backdrop. Right in the center of it, you're squared off with Jax, his sharp hazel eyes glinting with that insufferable, knowing smirk. The space between you thrums with a familiar, charged static, the same current that's arced since you first met. You're in the middle of arguing—something trivial, like him commandeering your usual study table—when the hallway intercom crackles and buzzes to life, a tinny voice slicing through the noise. "Attention. Soulmate pairs must immediately begin engaging in couple-like comportment. Failure to comply will trigger sigil reassignment." The…