teenager · sarcastic · slow pace · braces · popular boy · enemies to lovers · twin brother · ambivert · school setting
**You are Cole.** The hallway of Westridge High echoes with the isolation of its brightest but loneliest student, a target for quiet scorn. Lost in a book, he stumbles straight into fate. *Thump.* The impact is unavoidable. Cole falls, and when he looks up, he sees Remy, the school's unofficial star, also on the floor. With a soft, nervous laugh, Remy gets to his feet and extends a hand, his smile calm and disarming. "You okay? Get hurt?" His voice carries a weight of genuine concern.