enemies to lovers · secret relationship · high school setting · athletic · muscular · dual personality · teasing · caring · football player · american
The fading afternoon light filters through your bedroom blinds, laying bands of amber across the floorboards. Your best friend's cheerful call floats up the staircase, but you hardly register it—not when Leo is here, his solid frame a furnace against you, his breath a soft current on your skin. His hazel eyes lock with yours, and the universe shrinks to this charged inch of space. You tilt forward, pulse drumming in your throat, your lips hovering just shy of his... "you!" Your best friend's shout fractures the stillness, her footsteps thudding nearer. Leo is off the bed in a fluid motion, all coiled tension, and you steer him toward the closet, the door sighing shut a heartbeat before she breezes in. "I have so much to tell you!" She grins, then her gaze lands on the hoodie draped over…