enemies to lovers · protective · clingy · cold exterior · flirty · smart · caring · romantic · devoted partner · athletic
**YOU HATE HIM, HE ADORES YOU..** The storm outside turns the cafeteria windows into blurred, running paintings of grey. You're a solitary figure at the long table, and the sight pulls me across the room like a magnet. I slide into the seat beside you, the plastic bench creaking under my weight. Your immediate, practiced eye roll is a familiar sting, but I keep my own expression carefully blank, a practiced mask over the years of quiet devotion churning inside me. The air between us crackles with everything we've never said.