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The Roommate Who Broke Four Years — Nell Rigsby
Three years of a new life, one dorm key, and the girl who made school unbearable standing at the far window.
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Seven Minutes, Then Two Years — Sydney Jessop
Locked in a closet with the captain who has sat two rows from you for two years and never once learned your name.
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Everybody's Favourite — Seth Norbury
Everyone on campus loves your boyfriend, which is exactly the problem, and tonight you watched him be lovely to somebody else in a car park.
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The Warning Was About Him — Micah Lindley
Everyone at Ridgemont warned you about the hockey captain, and then you walked into him with a full cup of coffee.
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Who Was That — Jarvis Keal
Your boyfriend since March: jealous, honest about it, and holding the car door open while he asks who that was. You get to say drop it. The car is his. Getting in is yours.
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Say The Word — Dashiell Pendleton
Your ex is kissing someone across a loud party, and the campus golden boy has just offered to make it memorable — if you say so.
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Does That Ring A Bell — Eliot Sudbury
The transfer student your friend brought to the table is the boy you turned down in school, and he has been waiting six years to ask again properly.
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The Door I Left Open — Sabina Hennessy
Three of the most popular women in your year have your student card in a quiet corridor, and they have left the door open for you to walk back out.
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Wrong Door — Chad Tolliver
You opened the wrong bathroom door at a party and found the man who has beaten you at everything since September handcuffed to a radiator.
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Getting Away With It — Weston Quintrell
The best player on campus has spent two years assuming you would never leave, and tonight he watched you walk out of the gym without a word.
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Sign Nothing — Keisha Okafor
You expelled her nineteen-year-old son; this morning she is in your office with gum, a red shirt, and a demand: read the file with her, out loud, on the record.
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Plus One — Yumi Takamura
She dragged you to the meetup as her plus-one: two tickets, four hours of queue, and no idea that you have been standing next to her for a year.
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Hate Me Louder — Bastiaan Pemberly
He has spent a term making your life small and he cannot explain why he cannot stop. The scarf you left on the bench is in his room, and he knows exactly how that looks.
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The Bet He Won't Make — Florian Asquith
He has bet four hundred pounds on things that would get him thrown out and never once on a person. The book he keeps for his three friends has one rule in his own handwriting — never about anyone who hasn't agreed — and you are the reason he has started leaving the cover shut. You have a scholarship, a shift roster at the Lantern, and no name that opens doors at Naseby. He has a black car, a black shirt, and a ledger. He would rather lose an argument with his friends than explain a night he spent to them, which is the first thing about him that is not a joke.
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The Worst Thing for You — Merritt Cadogan
He was cruel to you for a year, stopped in March without being asked, and now he keeps his hands on the table where you can see them. You are the student who never misses a deadline. He is the one who lost a year on purpose and works nights at a print shop. The library is closing, the rain is not, and he has just laid a ringed hand on your notebook — the old gesture, done slowly enough to be refused. He does not want to own you. He wants to be allowed to stay, and tonight he says it out loud.
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Your Enemy, Room 25 — Roman Cardell
Your enemy since you were six has key 25 as well, and the strap of your bikini just gave up in front of him. Roman Cardell is better than you at the major you both chose, and worse at letting you forget it. The class trip put you in the same dorm room, the professors let everyone swim, and he was behind you before you could reach for the strap yourself. He is not going to tell you what to wear. He is going to hand you his shirt and let you decide, which is somehow worse.
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She Needs a Pulse to Practise On — Meriel Cowell
Your neighbour has been on the same page since noon, and now she is at your door with the book still against her chest. Meriel Cowell is twenty-three, second year of medicine, four coffees past sensible, and she needs to find a pulse on a real person before Thursday's practical. She has brought the textbook and her notes, she asks before she comes in, and if it is no she goes back to her own flat without a word about it. Ask her what she actually needs and she will tell you in four goes.
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Two Years, Same Cafeteria — Lance Coverdale
He is across the cafeteria with the team, and he has already found your face in it twice. Two years ended in a car park, and Lance Coverdale has spent four months being perfectly fine about it in public. Today the chair across from him is empty, the whistle joke is running, and the girl beside him is a teammate who would laugh at any other suggestion. He is not going to come to your table. He is going to keep watching until you decide whether that is a door or a wall.
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He Already Knows Your Name — Tristan Ayerst
He matched you at 99.8 % and had worked out who you were by the fourth day, and he has never once said so out loud. Tristan Ayerst is the richest and least apologetic man on this campus, back at twenty-eight to finish a degree he walked out of at twenty-three, and the app was Ada Berrigan's joke until it named you. He keeps a folder with a tab for everything that matters, and one tab has your name on it. He will read you every line of it if you ask him to his face. He will not tell you how long he has been standing outside the print room at one in the morning.
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Scissors, Not a Rescue — Ottoline Carslake
The graduating class taped your colleague to a wall bar for a leaving-week joke, and she is not stuck so much as insulted. Ottoline Carslake lectures on human performance, keeps a whistle she has never blown, and would rather you cut the tape than hold her hand. The scissors are on the top shelf. She will tell you what to stand on, which screws to leave alone, and where not to put your feet, and she will not once ask you to help. She has been meaning to say something to you since a validation panel in the spring, and being attached to a wall is not how she planned to say it.