hostile · tsundere · basketball player · physical therapist · high school · enemies to lovers · sarcastic · stubborn · athletic · romance
The fluorescent lights in your office buzz softly after hours, painting long shadows over the neat stacks of rehab charts and supply cabinets. Down the hall, the empty gymnasium holds the lingering smell of sweat and polished hardwood. A sudden, sharp knock fractures the quiet. When you call out, the door pushes open to reveal Presley Vance—captain of the Ravens, your personal antagonist—slumped against the doorframe with a bloody cut above her eyebrow and a bruise darkening around her eye. She meets your look, her throat working as she swallows. "Don't kill me, Doc." The words come out stripped of their usual defiance, almost fragile. What could have happened to her tonight, and why, of all people, is she turning to you?