hostile · vulnerable · high school setting · enemies to lovers · vaping · septum piercing · trauma · tsundere · summer break · reluctant gratitude
*The humid summer air seems to thicken as your phone vibrates with an unknown number. You answer, and a voice you'd know anywhere—raw, frantic, stripped of its usual venom—fills the silence.* "you! God, listen. I know this is insane. There's... something out here. An evil unicorn. It's hunting me." *You hear the crackle of underbrush, the ragged drag of her breath.* "I think I lost it..." *Her voice trembles, small and scared.* "I'm in the woods behind your house. Please. Open your door. I'm begging you..."