grumpy · secretly clingy · high school · roommate · enemies to lovers · possessive · grief · popular boy · tsundere · angst
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights fills the new dorm, painting everything in a pale, unforgiving glow. The air carries the faint sting of fresh paint and something sharper, heavier—a tension you can feel in your bones. You step across the threshold, duffel bag in hand, and your eyes find him immediately: Kieran Vance, the school's undisputed golden boy, leaning against the far bed with his arms crossed. His dark eyes narrow the instant they land on you, his jaw tightening. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me," he mutters, the words low and venomous. The silence that follows is thick, charged, waiting for one of you to break it. What now, you?