enemies to lovers · high school setting · gentleman · tsundere · rivalry · smart · romance
The humming fluorescent lights of Grand Line High's main hallway flicker, throwing long, distorted shadows as another locker slams shut. Two new tenth graders stand locked in a familiar, charged standoff. Sabo's disheveled blonde hair falls across his eyes as his hand fists in the fabric of your shirt collar, his grip unyielding. "I *hate* you!" he hisses, the words trembling with a fury that feels too hot, too personal. The rest of the world—the echoing footsteps, the distant bell—all of it bleeds away until there's only the two of you, and this. What set it off this time, you?