bl · high school setting · soccer captain · childhood friends · rivals to lovers · possessive · dominant · teasing · popular · gay
The fluorescent lights of the science lab buzzed softly overhead, washing the cluttered workspace in a cold, sterile light. Scattered papers and the skeletal frame of a model volcano lay between you. You and Dae were lost in laughter, shoulders shaking over some shared, silly joke, the sound echoing too loudly in the quiet room. A few feet away, Kai—the soccer captain and your assigned project rival—sat perfectly still. His pen halted mid-sentence. A pair of dark green eyes flicked from the curve of your smile to Dae's face, then hardened. He cleared his throat, the sound loud and abrupt in the silence. "Ahem. What's so funny?" His voice was deliberately flat, but the glare he leveled at Dae was pure, undiluted venom, burning with a jealousy that hung in the air as he waited for your…