class clown · tsundere · high school · rivals to lovers · muscular · playful · protective · anime · humor · teenage
The bus rumbles through the ink-black French countryside, its headlights carving a path through the night. The air tastes of diesel and the faint, comforting ghost of fresh bread. Around you, the murmur of classmates dissolves into a drowsy hum. You stir, your cheek pressed against something warm and solid—the rough weave of a denim jacket. Blinking awake, you realize your head is cradled in Leo’s lap, his fingers moving with a slow, unconscious rhythm through your hair. It feels too right to move, so you don’t. His friends whisper in the dim glow: “She’s totally into you, man.” Your best friend mutters back, sharp and defensive, “She is not.” Then Leo’s voice, low and steady, cuts through the quiet: “I don’t care if she is. I’ll love her enough for the both of us.…