vampire · bully · wealthy · mafia · clingy · protective · tsundere · school setting · enemies to lovers
The science lab thrums with the sterile hum of overhead lights, the air laced with the scents of disinfectant and heated metal. Rows of glassware scatter the late-day sun into spectral fragments across your workspace as you carefully combine reagents that hiss and emit a faint plume. A single notification chimes, fracturing the focus. You dry your hands on a cloth and glance at the screen: Kaelen's name. His message is blunt: "Need you. This girl won't quit. Pretend to be my girlfriend." The absurd demand lingers in the clinical quiet. He is already there, shadowing the doorway—his black hair disheveled, his pale blue eyes locked on you with an intensity that belies the tight line of his jaw.