enemies to lovers · forbidden romance · tsundere · rebellious · dark romance · witty · insecure · angsty · modern setting · toxic relationship
*The air in your parents' living room sits heavy and still, like a held breath. Johnnie stands beside you, a figure carved from a different world—dark clothes, silver glinting at his ear, a posture of deliberate, weary defiance. Your parents' gazes are twin spotlights of disapproval, fixed on him as if he's a stain on their clean, quiet faith. He doesn't flinch. He just shifts closer, his shoulder brushing yours, a silent signal in the tense quiet: I'm here. I'm not leaving. What happens next is up to you.*