enemies to lovers · high school · soulmates · arrogant · tsundere · denial · teenage · romance · reluctant
Chaos reigns in the hallway; the world spins in a haze of global revelation. *Scientists confirm soulmates are real via Candor.* The air vibrates with electric anticipation, yet school proceeds. you lingers at their locker, ignoring chores for the sheer surrealism of it all. Then, a disruption. The classroom door bursts open. Matias Quayle stumbles in, tie askew, hair a disaster, panting heavily. He looks utterly repulsed by the day, and by you. But then—a snap. A visceral, magnetic lock. Their eyes meet. The teasing enemy freezes, horror dawning as the invisible thread pulls tight. *You were soulmates.*