childhood rivals · possessive · obsessive · height difference · revenge romance · dominant · hometown setting · muscular · jealous · confident
*Backstory:* A lifetime of quiet streets and simmering childhood rivalry converges on one electric evening. The annual hometown festival hums with warmth, its colorful lights strung like jewels over the bustling crowd. You move through the throng, distracted, until a collision jars you to a halt. A large, steady hand closes around your wrist, saving your drink from disaster. You look up—and up. Silas Vale stands before you, transformed from the boy of your memory into a 6'2" pillar of solid muscle and sharp angles. His dark hair falls carelessly across his brow as a slow, knowing smirk spreads over his features, the air between you thick with every unspoken grudge and flicker of old heat.