The year is 2305 on planet earth, the human race has developed not only into one mixed race, but also have separated themselves into humans who live on Mars, or other four new developed planets, to those who still live on earth, their technology never increases quite like the others on different planets.

In the city of Emel, in the mansion of the Alonzo family, a young girl named Stephanie, prepares herself for the business meeting her parents have with the owners of their rival company, the Graciela family. “Steph, are you done yet? They’ve just arrived and I’m going to need you to come and greet them in the meeting room in less than thirty minutes!” Her mother commands, leaning on her door. “Yes, I’m already finished anyways” Stephanie responds, brushing her hair down and putting on a long silky black dress.

The Graciela family  enter the front door; a tall business man and woman, along with their 16 year old son, Levi. Stephanie soon walks down stairs to the meeting room with a smirk and black book in her arms. “Well… well, look at you acting professional for some reason, you know that you and I are still the same age, right?” Says Levi as he eyes her up and down. “And yet, I’m still better than you in every single way” says Stephanie, frustrated by Levi’s comment, slamming the book down on the desk.

“Now-now you two, let’s not start arguing pointless things, and start the meeting. Meanwhile, you two can go watch TV or something” says Stephanie’s father as he points them to a large couch in front of a big TV screen across the room. Levi and Stephanie sighs, and  had to sit on the couch, but they both make sure to sit as far apart  from each other as possible.

After talking about  how their companies will coordinate together, the two families soon go to the dinning table for dinner, to end the night. After a few minutes,Levi’s mother soon comments, “So, how is your little girl doing on her business and modelling studies?”. Levi smirks at Stephanie, waiting for her parents to respond. “I’m doing well thank you, tomorrow I’m even heading to special  classes” Stephanie response before her father can say a word, he looks surprised since the question was not aimed at her even though it was clearly about her.

“Well I see, I also have my own special classes tomorrow, at an academy even” says Levi as he stands up and walks towards Stephanie and holds her left shoulder, he then leans to whisper in her ear "Good luck". Stephanie feels irritated by his behaviour, but it’s nothing new to her since they have been in an endless competition with each other in almost everything for more than 7 years, judging by the fact that they are the heirs of each of their families companies.

The next week on a Monday, Stephanie’s parents drop her off at the academy where her special classes are taking place. “Thanks mom and dad , see you later!” Stephanie  waves as they drive away. Stephanie enters the school’s large halls with excitement, but soon bumps into Levi in the front door of her first class. “What?... Levi, you attending here too!?” Says Stephanie as she steps away from him confused.

“Well I didn’t think you’ll be here too, okay?” Levi pulls his hair back and looks at her with a sarcastic expression. “So you can’t blame this situation on me, let’s just get this over with and act like strangers to avoid more arguments  between us than usual” Levi then walks passed her as she turns to look at him “Fine just stay out of my way” Stephanie says, opening the class room door.

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After making that promise to each other, which is soon broken when their gym class turns into a competitive work out between them again, on who can lift or run the longest . It’s in the afternoon, Stephanie goes back home totally exhausted after the intense work out she did. She walks to her room and throws herself on the bed. “Huh …maybe Levi was right …uh can’t believe I even just said that” says Stephanie as she realises that their rivalry has to stop even though their parents are in one because of business, doesn’t mean that they have to be as well.

Stephanie soon gets up and sits on her bed, think about how to solve things with Levi, she looks at her note book and thinks maybe she should write him a letter since he won’t even give her time to speak and just ignore her like most of the time when in public. The next day, in the afternoon, Levi finishes his golf lessons and runs back to fetch his stuff before the locker room closes.

In the boys locker room, Stephanie snicks in, and finds Levi’s bag, putting  the letter in one of the pockets. “That should do it” she says walking to the door but soon stops when  she hears someone opening the door, she gets afraid of getting caught of sneaking around in there of all places and runs to hide inside the shower .“One minute and then I’m out!” Says Levi before one of the cleaners prepares to lock the door.

Levi enters the locker room, and grabs his towel to wipe his sweat, as Stephanie accidentally leans on the button that turns on the shower. “Huh, the shower is running, I thought everyone already left” Levi asks himself as he starts walking towards the shower and sees Stephanie walking out of it, her hair and clothes soaked.

“Stephanie Alanzo, what do you think your doing here!?” Levi says ,clearly angry that she’s sneaking around in the boys locker room “Are you crazy or stupid? I’ll just say both or worse. Look at you” .

Stephanie tries to dry her hair by squeezing and shaking it, “I…I just wanted your attention is all, I promise” she says but he doesn’t seem to believe her and just hands her his towel so she can dry up. Meanwhile, the cleaner prepares to lock the locker room and assumes that Levi already came out. Levi and Stephanie soon hear the door lock itself and they wonder what’s going on.

“Ow no…ow no…are you locked in? Levi” Stephanie starts to panic.”It’s okay, maybe it’s just a sound from next door” Levi goes to the door and tries to open it but it refuses to. “We’re locked in?” Says Stephanie holding Levi’s hand, he looks at her concerned “Don’t worry I’ll call my father to call the principal that we’re still in here. Don’t be scared” he says as he takes out his phone out of his bag and starts calling his father but soon notices that there’s no signal.

Stephanie tries her mini earpod phone to search for any service, only to find a small signal, but soon…”I’ve got signal Levi, I’ve got…no!” Stephanie says as lightning flashes, turning the academy lights all out. “Hmm,I think that thunder messed up the power source or something” says Levi looking out the window as the rain starts pouring outside.

The room is almost dark so they both light up their phone’s flash lights, but even when there’s a little bit of light, Stephanie still feels scared and runs to hug Levi tightly “Your such a scaredy cat, you know that” Levi says in a teasing tone as he hugs her bag slowly sitting on one of the locker room’s chairs .

“Levi, I’m sorry I got both of us in this situation, I just wanted to give you a message” says Stephanie.

Levi is curious on what the message is and asks her to tell him instead, “Well, it’s not much, I just wanted to end this rival thing we have between us, is all” Stephanie responds. The lightning flashes again, making Stephanie soon flinches while in his arms, he than holds her tighter, “I don’t mind ending our rivalry, don’t worry, I wanted to end it as well anyways” says Levi

“Thanks for comforting me, it’s been a while since I got this much cuddles” says Stephanie as she looks at him eye to eye, feeling a mixture of happiness and a weird feeling she never felt towards him before, is she starting to like him? She asks herself ,as he leans his towards her, their faces only a few inches away from each other.

“You deserve all the cuddles in the world, even though your can be self obsessed sometimes” says Levi. Stephanie seems to be loosing her mind on how close he is to her, asking her self why she likes this position of being hugged by him and his face beings so close to her that she can almost feel his breath. “You also can be selfish. So we’re both horrible rivals” says Stephanie as their faces get closer to each other. Soon starting to rub their lips against each other and slowly start kissing.

To be continued…