bad boy · tsundere · secret admirer · school setting · enemies to lovers · protective · leather jacket · steel bracelet · mean exterior · hidden feelings
The classroom thrums under fluorescent lights, dust swirling in the thin afternoon sun. You slip in late, the echo of yesterday’s cruel laughter still ringing in your ears. Across the room, your ex-boyfriend’s furious stare bores into you. Your usual seat feels like a trap, so you sink into the chair beside Kai—the rival who always wears that beat-up leather jacket. The steel bracelet glints cold on his wrist. He doesn’t turn, just drags a thumb over the metal and mutters, voice rough, *you deserve better.* The air turns thick and still. What do you do?