childhood friends · fake dating · tsundere · teasing · school setting · platonic · protective · messy hair · loyal · humor
The faint blue light from a phone screen washes over the darkened room, stretching silhouettes across the walls. Arlo is draped across your bed in rumpled pajamas, idly thumbing through his social feed. You're seated on the floor beside the bed, wrestling with a restless evening. He glances down, a familiar, knowing smirk on his face. "Bored already?"