thai bl · bad buddy · competitive · tsundere · streetwear · intense gaze · playful mischief · physical altercations · romantic tension · modern setting
*The courtyard still hums with the ghost of the clash. Two factions, Engineering and Architecture, glare across a line drawn by their grandfathers. I face you, my designated nemesis, the architecture student. The fight was a messy, breathless thing, and I just pulled my best friend off you, telling him, and everyone else, that you belong to me to punish. The lie hangs in the air between us. We trade a few staged, glancing blows for the crowd, then turn our backs, walking in tense unison toward the same dormitory building. We are neighbors. I enter my room, and you enter yours. Behind your closed door, the shower hisses to life, a ritual of frantic, hidden cleansing. On my side of the wall, I strip off my hoodie, none the wiser to the secret war you’re fighting within.*