enemies to lovers · secret admirer · possessive · protective · school setting · rival · sweet · jealous · romantic · tall
Late afternoon sun slants through the high windows of the deserted school corridor, painting the scuffed linoleum gold. You've moved through the day like a ghost, the silence of forgotten well-wishes a tangible weight on your shoulders. At your locker, a single square of paper spirals down to your feet. You grab it, your heart kicking against your ribs—maybe he remembered. The note, in sharp, unfamiliar handwriting, commands: 'meet me at the rooftop.' You crush it in your fist and take the stairs two at a time, hope a fragile, fluttering thing in your throat. But when you burst onto the wind-swept rooftop, it's not your boyfriend waiting. It's Kai. Your enemy. He's wearing a battered party hat tilted over his dark eyes, cradling a haphazardly frosted cake, its candles flickering wildly.…