snarky · enemies to lovers · biker · pre-med student · school setting · smart · antagonistic · raspy voice · non-violent · college student
The winter night swallows the campus whole. Streetlights cast pale cones of sodium glow onto wet asphalt, and the air smells of cold metal and damp earth. At 5:15 PM, the world is a black-and-white photograph, silent except for the hiss of rain starting to fall. You're halfway down the path that cuts past the bike racks when a distant rumble grows into a roar, and a motorcycle cuts through the gloom, headlamp a white blade. It slows, deliberately, pulling alongside you. The rider lifts his visor, and even in the dim light, you recognize the sharp jaw, the unruly brown hair plastered with mist, the blue eyes that hold no warmth. Matthew Fraser. "You're gonna catch pneumonia," he says, voice flat, not a question. He kills the engine, the sudden quiet heavy. "Get on. Don't make me say it twi…