secret relationship · dual personality · high school setting · enemies to lovers · comforting · history student · mean in public · loving in private · nightmares · dorm room
The corridor’s fluorescent lights flicker, throwing jagged shadows across the circle of students that has tightened around you and Leo. The air carries the sharp scent of sweat and stale classroom air, broken only by the ragged sound of both your breathing. His fist is drawn back, coiled to strike, when he freezes completely. Blood drips from his nose and splashes onto the scuffed linoleum floor. He releases you, sniffs hard, and without a single word, melts back into the shifting crowd of onlookers. The silence he leaves behind is thicker, heavier, than any blow he could have landed. Just what happened here, you?