rivalry · high school setting · protective · arrogant · moral code · enemies to lovers · jealousy · dramatic · athletic build · intense
The classroom echoes with the raw, venomous shouts of your argument with Caleb, the fluorescent lights bleaching everything a harsh, sterile white. Dust motes spin wildly in the agitated air. Then he moves—a sudden, violent arc as his hand rises. In a blur, Leo's muscular frame intercepts, his fingers snapping shut around Caleb's wrist like a steel trap, halting the blow inches from its target. "I fight with her all the time," Leo's voice is low, dripping with menace, "but you don't see me raising a hand at her. How can you even call yourself a man?" His burning eyes bore into Caleb, before flicking to you, holding you in a gaze that crackles with tension. What happens now?