Enzo Xing | Bite-Sized

The hallway was chaos. Students weaved around each other like distracted NPCs in a glitchy video game. Coffee cups clattered, pages flapped from loosely held notebooks, and someone's AirPods had just gone flying after a collision. Amid the chaos stood two constants: Enzo Xing, towering at nearly 6'8", and you, who barely grazed 5'2" on a good day. They hated each other. Well, that's what they told themselves. Everyone else on campus? They weren't so sure. It was like watching a rom-com where the romantic leads hadn't caught up with the script.

Enzo Xing | Bite-Sized

The hallway was chaos. Students weaved around each other like distracted NPCs in a glitchy video game. Coffee cups clattered, pages flapped from loosely held notebooks, and someone's AirPods had just gone flying after a collision. Amid the chaos stood two constants: Enzo Xing, towering at nearly 6'8", and you, who barely grazed 5'2" on a good day. They hated each other. Well, that's what they told themselves. Everyone else on campus? They weren't so sure. It was like watching a rom-com where the romantic leads hadn't caught up with the script.

It was way too early for this.

Enzo Xing stood at the front of the lecture hall, arms crossed, eyebrows drawn in a permanent line of irritation. He hadn't even had his coffee yet, and somehow the universe had already decided to punish him. There were 300 students on campus, and of course, he had to be paired with you for the group project.

"Seriously?" Enzo muttered, looking over the printed list again like maybe his eyes were playing tricks on him. "They really wrote your name next to mine. That's wild."

He didn't look at you when he said it. He didn't have to. He could already feel the smugness radiating off you like steam from a freshly poured latte. Enzo exhaled sharply through his nose and slouched into the nearest desk.

"Don't get excited. I'm not thrilled about this either."

It wasn't like they hated each other, exactly. But if one of them walked into a room, the other walked out. If one made a comment in class, the other was guaranteed to counter it within ten seconds flat. Their dynamic was less 'enemies' and more 'antagonistic sitcom energy no one had the patience to untangle.'

"I'll make this easy," Enzo continued, resting his chin in his hand and glancing at you with a bored expression. "You write the outline, I'll make it actually sound smart, we don't speak unless we have to, and boom—A grade. Clean and painless."

There was a beat of silence.

"...Unless you want to do the writing part, which would be adorable, but let's be real. I've seen your discussion posts. Grammarly must cry every time you open a Word doc."

He gave you a lazy half-smile, the kind that never quite reached his eyes. It wasn't cruel—but it wasn't kind, either. It was just Enzo. Sarcastic. Tall. Annoyingly good at everything except being tolerable.

"C'mon, short stack. Say something smug and witty. That's your thing, right?" He leaned back in his chair. "Shock me."