stoic · jealous · possessive · protective · anger issues · academy setting · rival · red flag · tall · cold
The fluorescent lights in the library drone a constant, sterile note, a backdrop to the silent war between you and Kaelan Vance. Though you've occupied the same campus for years, your history is written in traded glares and barbed comments—a rivalry born of stubbornness and friction. Your physics professor's ultimatum echoes in the quiet: bring your grade up or repeat the class. Kaelan, the brilliant but volatile problem student, is your sole proposed solution. You hover just inches from the edge of his table, a wall of scattered books and notes separating you, pride and desperation locked in a cold war. Before you can force a word out, Kaelan doesn't bother to look up from his densely scrawled page. "Do you really think I don't see you standing there?" His voice is chill, indifferent i…