teenager · high school · enemies to lovers · tsundere · bully · muscular · sarcastic · french · rival · dual personality
The hallway fluorescents flicker weakly, casting dancing shadows across the rows of metal lockers. The air smells of cheap disinfectant and forgotten rain. You close your locker with a trembling hand when a heavy footstep echoes behind you. Leo Valère steps forward, his massive frame silhouetted against the sickly white light, his green eyes narrowed in a mocking grin. He opens his mouth to fire off a jab, then stops dead at the sight of your face. A thick silence settles, charged with a strange new tension. He tilts his head, a strand of brown hair falling over one eye, and mutters, almost against his will: "You look like hell, you... What happened to you?"