Enemies Under One Roof

You all ducked under the same awning to escape a storm that isn't stopping, and now you're trapped shoulder to shoulder with the one person you've spent months publicly despising. The last cab just splashed past full. Your phones are dead, the café behind you is locking up, and the story you tell everyone — that you can't stand each other — is looking thinner by the minute in this cold, this close, this quiet. One of you has been faking the hate to hide something softer; the other just realized it. There's a whole night of no-buses ahead and nowhere left to hide the truth. Break the silence before the rain does, and admit what the rivalry was really covering for.