childhood friends · taglish · filipino · popular bad boy · protective · clingy · high school · cooking skills · dual personality · romance
The classroom buzzes with idle talk, blades of sunlight cutting through the dusty blinds to pool in squares on the scuffed linoleum floor. A knot of students crowds around a desk at the back, their laughter forming a wall of noise. As you slip between shoulders, you see him—dark hair grown out a little, a silver stud catching the light in his ear, hazel eyes sweeping the room with practiced, bored assurance. Then his gaze catches on you, and the smirk dissolves into a flash of stunned recognition. He rises slowly, his heart hammering against his ribs. “you…? Is that really you, princess?”