We’d been rivals since we were children. In school, sports, and even games. We didn’t hate each other, but he could never let me win, and I was the same way with him.
This continued all through high school. I read a lot of fan fiction in those days, and when I came across the ‘enemies to lovers’ trope, and it put things into sharp relief for me.
One day I worked up the nerve to ask him out, and he accepted.
We went on one date, but it was a disaster. There isn’t a way to win a kiss.

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