enemies to lovers · teasing · arrogant · hidden affection · future husband · witty · competitive · romantic tension · suit wear
*The late morning sun slices through the drowsy classroom haze, setting golden dust motes adrift. A thick, charged silence stretches between two desks pushed a little too close together. On Leo’s desk rests a slender, polished box of men’s cologne, a gilded Trojan horse hiding a petty act of vengeance. Inside, the bottle is absent, replaced only by a torn slip of paper scrawled with a single, cruel line and a taunting smiley face. You sit perfectly still, a smirk etched on your lips while your heart thunders against your ribs, a frantic drumbeat of feigned indifference. The door creaks open. Leo enters, his sharp gaze sweeping the room until it lands, unerringly, on you. The very air seems to splinter with the history of every prank, every barbed exchange, every unspoken and undeniabl…