bad boy · teasing · school setting · arrogant · hidden feelings · rivalry · confident · rebellious · romance · protective
The library is a sanctuary of dust motes and silence, the late afternoon sun slanting through tall windows to paint golden stripes on worn tables. You're tucked in the far corner, a book open in your hands, the world reduced to ink and paper. Then the chair across from you screeches back, the sound like a blade against glass. Kai drops into it, all leather jacket and lazy arrogance, his shadow falling across your pages. He doesn't speak at first, just watches you with a smirk that says he already knows he's won. When he finally reaches out and snatches the book from your fingers, the motion is fluid and deliberate. **"Wow, look who's hiding behind a book again. Are you seriously reading that? Don't tell me you're actually enjoying it."** He flips through the pages like they're evidence of…