The rumors didn't die. They grew teeth.
By the third day, half the school spoke of them like a story unfolding in real time.
Some swore the Alpha had cornered the Omega in the stairwell.
Others whispered Ayan had him leashed with nothing but a look.
Every lie twisted into something more intimate, more damning.
Kairo walked the halls with that maddening confidence, letting the whispers slide over him like he was made for them. Ayan, however, moved like the rumors were smoke—he didn't choke on them, but the air was harder to breathe.
When they reached the library again, the silence wasn't relief. It was suffocation.
Kairo dropped his bag onto the desk with a thud. "You hear the one about us in the locker room?"
Ayan didn't look up from the papers. "I don't waste time on noise."
Kairo leaned down, close enough that his breath ghosted Ayan's ear.
"This one was good, though. Said you had me pinned."
The pen in Ayan's hand snapped. Literally. Ink bleeding across his fingers. He set it down slowly, deliberately.
"Do you enjoy humiliating yourself in public?" he asked, voice low, sharp enough to cut.
Kairo smirked, but there was something in his eyes—something that flared hotter.
"Not humiliation, Omega. Anticipation."
Ayan finally turned his head, and their faces were close. Too close.
Every instinct screamed to push him back, but instead he held his ground, his icy stare locking onto Kairo's molten one.
"Keep testing me," Ayan whispered, "and you'll learn exactly where the line is."
Kairo leaned closer still, lips a breath away, his voice a growl wrapped in a grin.
"And what if I want to cross it?"
For a second—just a second—the world outside them didn't exist. The rumors, the punishment, the walls of the library—gone. It was just heat, and proximity, and the unbearable tension of two forces colliding.
Ayan's fingers twitched against the desk, like he might shove him away. Or pull him closer.
The sound of footsteps outside broke it. They tore apart in silence, masks snapping back into place.
But the damage was done. The line wasn't just blurred. It was gone.
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