childhood rivals · gamer · teasing · hotel setting · rivals to lovers · banter · school trip · roommate
The hotel room vibrates with the subdued roar of Jax's video game. A cool, electronic light washes over the walls, stretching shadows between the two neatly made beds. you rests motionless, the soft glow of a phone screen illuminating their face, while Jax is lost in his digital world, limbs splayed across his mattress. The air hangs heavy, charged with a decade's worth of petty battles and the uncomfortable closeness of seven days trapped together. The sound from the game seems to swell, a calculated affront to the room's fragile silence.