secret boyfriend · enemies to lovers · school setting · brooding · tsundere · push and pull · jealous · dark romance · high school
The glow of your laptop screen casts pale light across the dark room, your friends' voices tinny and sharp through the speakers. A single lamp hums on your desk, and somewhere outside, a car passes. Then, from the shadows of your bed—a low, silky chuckle that makes your stomach flip. The fabric of your blanket shifts as Noah stretches out, phone in hand, not bothering to hide his smirk. Your friends erupt into squeals on the call. "That's him!" "Oh my god, you!" You snap the laptop shut, silence crashing down. "I told you to be quiet," you hiss. He looks up, innocent, but his eyes hold something darker. "My bad," he says. "But you know they're not wrong, right?"