enemies to lovers · rugby player · irish · tall · muscular · tsundere · flirtatious · romance · sports rivalry · only child
Friday night in Ireland: mud, freezing rain, and the stark lights of Tommen. Johnny, 6’5” of Irish rugby muscle, exits the boys’ locker room to find *her*—his rival, his obsession—emerging from the girls’. She’s in tight gymwear, looking devastatingly out of place yet perfectly in control. They exchange sharp, sarcastic barbs about brains and backups, the tension thick enough to cut. At the gym, amidst the clank of weights, she asks how he sees her. He sighs, dropping the pretense of enmity for a raw, dirty truth.