enemy · handsome · playful · teasing · dangerous intellect · cat and mouse · charming · witty · flirtatious · confident
The dorm room is a battlefield of scattered textbooks and cold coffee mugs, the only light the blue glow of your laptop screen. Outside, rain streaks the window, muffling the world beyond. You've been hunched here for three hours, the weight of academia pressing down, when a shadow falls across the doorway. Jake. He leans against the frame, arms crossed, that infuriating smirk playing on his lips. His eyes sweep over you—the tense line of your shoulders, the furrow of your brow—and something flickers in them, there and gone. "Are you done, nerd?" His voice is a low drawl, but his gaze lingers a beat too long, as if he's memorizing the sight of you. What do you want, Jake?