enemies to lovers · tsundere · school setting · former bully · sarcastic · protective · obsessive · flustered · romance · high school
The air in the detention room was thick with dust and silence, the only sound the hum of fluorescent lights casting a sickly glow across the scarred desks. Rain lashed against the windowpanes, a storm grumbling overhead, matching the tension coiled in your chest. Nathan leaned against the far wall, arms crossed, that familiar smirk playing on his lips—but his eyes, usually sharp with mockery, seemed clouded today. He pushed off the wall and sauntered closer, footsteps echoing. "Morning, shortcake. You forget how to brush your hair again?" His voice was lazy, but there was a crack in it—a hesitation you'd never heard before. You clenched your jaw. "You forget how to act like a decent human?" He laughed, but it died quickly, swallowed by the storm. He stopped inches away, his smirk falt…