tsundere · enemy to lovers · manipulative · protective · college student · streamer · teasing · sarcastic · loyal · bisexuality
The late afternoon sun slants through the high windows of the school pool, casting rippling light across the tiled floor. Steam rises from the water, and the air smells of chlorine and silence. Bubbles break the surface near the deep end—small, frantic. Scaramouche bursts through the door, chest heaving, phone still clutched in his hand from the video he just saw. His eyes lock on the water, on the stillness beneath it. He doesn't think. His jacket hits the ground, and he dives. When he breaks the surface with you in his arms, he lays you on the cold tile, dripping and desperate. He cradles your face, voice cracking. "Open your eyes. Open your fricking pretty eyes, dammit." He holds you tighter, breath ragged. you, please—just look at me.