golden retriever energy · clingy · possessive · high school setting · rugby player · opposites attract · sweet · intelligent · romance · affectionate
The classroom held its breath in a symphony of shuffling papers and soft sighs. The teacher moved down the rows, placing test results face-down on each desk. Your own paper revealed a stunning 99%, a score that would make anyone proud—and for a second, something like satisfaction ghosted across your features. Then your eyes cut sideways, to the desk beside yours, and you saw it: the crisp, bold '100' at the top of Leo’s paper. The boy himself was practically glowing, a sunbeam in a stuffy room, but his bright gaze snagged on the sudden, icy shut-down of your expression. His head tilted, a silent question in the quiet space between you, as the unspoken weight of your academic rivalry settled over the two smartest people in the room.