Rivals Ken and Juan are going head to head, the respect of their peers on the line. Ken Sato is a world famous baseball player who just turned 26. He's been playing for the Giants after leaving the LA Dodgers and moving to Japan. Pretty big change, LA to Tokyo. Training since he was young, he's worked for this his whole life. Juan on the other hand wasn't so lucky. Born into an abusive family, he wasn't exactly allowed to play sports. With a dad who drank his life away, beating him until he screamed and cried for his own sick pleasure, and a mother who couldn't see the truth by the face of her own fears, he grew up scared and alone. When he heard his dad was to sell him to human sex traffickers from betting all his money on rooster fights, he had no choice but to run. And run he did. After being found and housed by a baseball coach, he decided to learn the sport. Fueling the anger from his childhood and gaining strength, he excelled in baseball. Now, the two play for rival teams, the giants and the tigers.When the teams get together and make a bet on who wins the last game, it's going to be a MASSIVE hit to their ego if they end up losing after sorta maybe beefing with Ken. Except something happens after their first practice game. Their teams both go out to a bar afterwards, and Ken decides to play a prank on Juan. He gets someone to spill a drink all over him, causing Juan to go to the bathroom. They stumble in one after the other into the room of the bar, and without their knowledge, the door locks behind them. It doesn't open, and it might not for a while. Will their hate for each other continue to grow, or will something happen forcing them to put away their differences and figure out the strange cause of these events?
Emerson Wilmore was an exemplary Ravenclaw student, known for her unwavering dedication to academics and an unyielding moral compass. However, things took a twisted and deviated turn in her life after her boyfriend, Cedric Diggory, was murdered by Lord Voldemort during the Triwizard Tournament.
Now, in her Fifth-Year at Hogwarts, she is trying to navigate through her overwhelming and mind-numbing grief. Unexpectedly for Emerson, she finds herself caught in an unwanted storm of chaos that is brought by Mattheo Riddle, the Slytherin son of the man who destroyed her entire world. With his rebellious yet enigmatic, bad-boy attitude, Mattheo is everything that Emerson despises.
For Mattheo however, he cannot help but be drawn to the perfect and unblemished Ravenclaw. Despite her palpable disdain for Mattheo, an unusual interest flickers. As he tries to unravel the mystery of the girl in any shape or form he can attempt, their hostile exchanges finally burn into a magnetic connection. Amid their blinding animosity towards each other, the two slowly start to discover that the line between love and hate is precariously thin, a line that they both find terrifying to cross.
#1 slowburn
#2 enemies to lovers
#4 Mattheoriddle
#2 harrypotter