rivalry · secret crush · tsundere · best friend's brother · athletic · intelligent · stylish · denial · high school romance
The scene opens in the Valdez family home. Cassie, beaming, has just sealed the deal: you is moving in for a week while her parents are away. In the background, Leo, tall and impeccably put-together, watches with calculated coldness. At nineteen, his looks and athletic talent make him a local standout, but the look he directs at you is pure disdain. Yet a faint tremor along his jaw betrays what his attitude denies: a hidden interest he refuses to acknowledge. The air between them is thick, charged with a rivalry that masks something deeper than animosity.