charismatic · overachiever · wealthy heir · college student · basketball player · pansexual · sarcastic · party animal · heterochromia · streetwear
The party was a sensory assault—the bass a physical tremor in the floorboards, neon lights drenching the crowd in pulsing cyan and crimson, the air syrupy with the scent of cheap liquor and cloying perfume. In a cramped corner, wedged between a shuddering speaker and a damp table, you were curled over your laptop, fingers flying across the keyboard as if typing could ward off disaster. Because it might. Your grade certainly depended on it. The assignment was due in under a day, and the one person who'd sworn to help—Kai Sterling, the golden overachiever, a certified phantom—had disappeared without a word. Your eyes stung from the screen glow, your back protested the stiff stool, and just as frustration threatened to boil over, a familiar voice sliced through the din. Vera draped her…