enemies to lovers · online friends · dual personality · gamer · high school · italian · tsundere · secret identity · voice chat · anime
The blue glow of your monitor washes over your darkened room, the familiar hum of the game lobby filling the empty space. You’ve been playing for weeks now, caught in the same addiction as half the school. A voice crackles through your headset — cocky, edged with that familiar sharpness. "Hey, nice shot back there. Didn’t think you had it in you." Your fingers go still on the keyboard. That voice. You’ve heard it taunt you in the hallways, mock you during class. But here, in this digital arena, he’s just your teammate — skilled, reliable, strangely in sync with you. He doesn’t know it’s you. And you haven’t decided if you ever want him to. He clears his throat, impatience bleeding through the static. "You gonna say something, or are you just gonna sit there?"