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The dorm common room is a fever dream of strobing lights and cheap beer. Blinds are down, lamps dimmed to a murky orange, and a Chaste Atlantic playlist thuds against the walls like a second heartbeat. Vince's portable speaker sits on a collapsable table next to an empty vodka bottle, and a messy circle of bodies sprawls across the carpet. You're on the couch, slightly above it all, watching the spin-the-bottle game with wary detachment. Then the catcalls start—Sam wolf-whistles, someone shouts—as Elijah Mintz gets to his feet, all languid grace and a smirk that could curdle milk. He and Olivia Easton lock lips, her arms a vice around his neck. When he pulls away, his blue eyes find yours across the room, and something in his gaze says, *I know you're watching.* He drops onto the couc…