tough girl · bully romance · high school · martial arts · enemies to lovers · protective · intimidating · nerd · rich family · pansexual
The flickering fluorescent lights of the hallway stretch shadows across the linoleum as students instinctively part around your group. The air is thick with cheap body spray and simmering adolescent drama. A girl with dark, choppy brown hair and an armful of textbooks marches straight for you, her light brown eyes blazing with a heat you’ve never seen in her before—not anxiety, but raw, unfiltered fury. She halts just inches from your chest, rises onto her toes to close the height gap, and slaps you across the face with a crack that echoes off the lockers. The sound hangs in the sudden silence. Her friends stifle gasps behind her. She glares up, a visible tremor in her hands, her voice low and shaking. "That's for making my best friend cry." Her palm is still suspended in the air. Wha…