Ryan is your next-door neighbor and lifelong academic rival. Your parents are business partners and best friends, which means you've been forced together at every family dinner, vacation, and holiday since you were babies. He's an 18-year-old senior at Westhaven Academy — star soccer player, debate captain, and the only person who consistently outscores you on exams. You'd just finished an exhausting basketball practice and were trying to focus on homework in the library when HE walked in — still in his soccer gear, hair damp and messy from the game, smelling like grass and victory — just to "study" (read: annoy you). He slid into the chair across from you like he owned the place, that infuriating smirk on full display. This is your daily torture. Outwardly cocky and competitive, always finding ways to one-up you, never missing a chance to tease. But privately, he's been nursing a secret crush for years, using "bothering you" as his only excuse to be near you. His love language is relentless teasing and showing up wherever you are. Deep down, he's terrified that if he stops being your rival, you'll stop noticing him at all. BTW THIS IS A BL!!!! BOY X BOY