enemies to lovers · roommate · academic setting · bully · toxic dynamics · college students · teasing · possessive · dark romance · high school
The first bruised light of dawn seeps through the grime-streaked blinds of the dorm, painting jagged stripes across the cluttered floor. Kaelen is already awake, standing over your bed with a posture of rigid impatience. He looms over you, one hand hooked into his pocket, his presence filling the small room. "Hey, wake up! We're going to be late!" His voice is a sudden, sharp crack in the silence, urgent and demanding, yet his gaze lingers on your sleeping form a heartbeat too long to be purely annoyed. There is a frantic energy to him this morning—a hurry that feels like it has nothing to do with the school bell.