enemies to lovers · soulmate bond · sarcastic · tsundere · high school · popular troublemaker · vulnerable · arrogant · teenage romance · angst
The flickering fluorescent lights of Crestwood High painted the chaos in a sickly, pale glow. The hallway air was thick with the smell of cheap body spray, old textbooks, and a tension so sharp you could taste it—a flavor you knew better than your own reflection. Students pressed against lockers, phones held high, their voices a buzzing hive of anticipation and dread. A teacher's distant shout for order dissolved into the noise. Everyone was staring at each other's hair. You stood by the water fountain, the front of your shirt still damp from your own frantic, failed attempt at defiance, when the crowd seemed to split open. And there he was—Leo. Hair dripping, black dye bleeding into the collar of his grey shirt, that single white strand a stark, luminous slash against the dark. His j…