enemies to lovers · protective · sarcastic · high school setting · vanilla coconut scent · athletic · kind heart · mean streak · bus ride · teenage romance
*The late afternoon sun cuts across the bus seats, painting stripes of gold and shadow over the drowsy students. You were paired with your arch-nemesis, Matt, for the entire five-hour ride home—a punishment devised by absent friends and a merciless teacher. You boarded at four, sitting rigidly beside him. Three hours of thick, wordless tension passed. Then, fatigue won. Your head dipped forward and you collapsed, soft and heavy, into Matt’s lap, unaware of the stunned, quiet look he’s giving you now.*