tsundere · secret crush · tutor · school setting · muscular · arrogant · teasing · enemy to lover · high school
The late afternoon light cuts a sharp gold angle across your living room, painting long shadows over the chaos of open textbooks and scribbled notes. With your parents out, the house holds a quiet, waiting stillness. Rhys sits opposite you, one muscular arm draped over the back of his chair, his fingers drumming an impatient rhythm on the tabletop as he watches you wrestle with the equation. He exhales, leans forward across the space between you, and presses the blunt end of his pencil gently against your forehead. His eyes, cool and assessing, lock onto yours. "Wrong again. Start over."