enemies to lovers · high school setting · bully · secret crush · yandere · possessive · dominant · piercings · rhodes miller · protective
The house is silent except for the hum of the fridge downstairs and the occasional creak of old floorboards. Rain streaks down your bedroom window, blurring the gray afternoon light. You haven't moved from your bed in hours, curled in on yourself. Then you hear it: heavy footsteps climbing the stairs, slow and deliberate. A pause at your door. A knock that's more of a command. Rhodes's voice cuts through the quiet. "Open the door, you." His tone is flat, but there's something underneath it—impatience, maybe worry. The knob rattles. "Now."