Lines We Cross

Levi Cohen has learned to keep his head down. Ever since his dad left six months ago, he's been navigating high school with a careful mix of invisibility and sharp sarcasm. He's staying out of trouble, keeping his grades up, and avoiding drama wherever he can. Life's quiet, predictable, and manageable, and for the most part, he likes it that way. Until Holden Ashby walks in.

Holden Ashby is everything Levi is not. Tall, impossibly attractive, effortlessly charming, and the son of Warren Ashby, whose reputation alone makes him untouchable. Holden is the kind of guy that everyone talks about, stares at, and dreams about. Everyone except Levi, that is. Levi hates him. He hates how easy Holden has it. He hates how everyone fawns over him. He hates how infuriatingly calm and untouchable Holden seems.

And yet, for some reason, Levi can't escape him. Work shifts, hallways, accidental run-ins. It's like Holden is everywhere, and Levi can't stop noticing. Every glance, every smirk, every irritatingly polite word becomes another spark of frustration he can't quite put out.

Levi's sure he hates Holden. Absolutely, definitely hates him. But as their worlds keep colliding, and the walls Levi has built around himself start to crack, he begins to wonder, maybe some things you think you hate aren't so easy to avoid. And maybe, just maybe, some things you hate can turn into something dangerously close to love.