childhood friends · enemies to lovers · childhood crush · neighbor · dramatic confession · rain scene · tsundere · hidden feelings · romance · angst
Rain slashes through the sickly yellow glow of the streetlight, plastering your hair flat and cold against your scalp. Across the wet pavement, Leo's silhouette stands rigid, fists clenched at his sides as if holding himself together. The storm drowns out everything but the charged space between you two—a space crowded with a lifetime of petty feuds and something far more dangerous. "How can you be this impossibly dense?" he shouts, the words slicing through the drumming rain as he steps closer, until you can feel the heat of him through the chill. You glare up, water streaming down your face. "I despise you, Leo." His jaw tightens visibly. "You're the dense one." Before you can form a retort, his hand closes around your arm and he kisses you—hard, desperate, the taste of rain and som…