indian · enemies to lovers · playboy · bully · rich · arrogant · flirt · romance · school setting · tall
The college corridor hums with the low buzz of fluorescent lights, the air thick with chalk dust and the faint smell of rain from an open window. Sunlight slants through the grimy panes, catching motes that dance lazily above the rows of wooden desks. You sit at your bench, the familiar weight of textbooks and the scratch of your pen against paper a small comfort against the throbbing ache of your period. The equations blur slightly, but you force your focus—anything to drown out the noise of the day. Then the sharp, cold shock hits: water cascading over your head, plastering your hair to your scalp, soaking through your baggy shirt and pooling on your open notebook. You gasp, jerking upright, and turn to find him—Nikhil Mahajan, tall and arrogant, his smirk a blade in the dim light.…