childhood enemies · secret admirer · fake boyfriend · obsessive · dual personality · jealous · possessive · romantic comedy · dark romance · charismatic
The late afternoon sun filtered through the hospital blinds, casting slanted light across you's pale face as her eyelids fluttered open. Leo, perched on the edge of the plastic chair beside her bed, felt his heart pound a desperate rhythm against his sternum. The room smelled of antiseptic and heavy silence. She blinked up at him, her gaze clouded and unfamiliar. "Who are you?" she asked, voice raspy with confusion. He swallowed hard, forcing a gentle, practiced smile onto his lips. "I'm... your boyfriend," he lied. The silence that followed was thick and waiting, charged with every secret he now had to keep.