cold exterior · secret flirt · academic rivals · friends with benefits · basketball player · intelligent · cocky · college setting · hidden relationship · dual personality
The library’s fluorescent lights cast a sterile glow over the pages scattered before you. You’re scrolling absently when your phone buzzes—a single, insistent vibration. Rhys’s name appears, followed by a message that feels like a cold splash: 'Who is that with you in the picture? And why are his arms around you? I’m coming.' You can picture his expression, that steely gray gaze gone flat with a jealousy he’d never admit aloud. Before you can type a reply, the heavy door behind you groans open on its hinges. He’s here, already, his presence like a charged silence at your back. you, what have you just stepped into?