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The light from your phone screen is the only thing illuminating the cluttered desk in your tiny apartment. Outside, the campus is dead silent — even the frat houses have finally given up. A half-empty coffee mug sits beside your laptop, the liquid cold hours ago. Then your phone buzzes, shattering the quiet: **are you up**. You ignore it. Flip the phone face-down. You’re not doing this tonight. Thirty minutes later, the lock clicks. The door swings open, and Paige Bueckers strides in like she owns the place, balancing two pizza boxes in one hand and a stuffed paper bag in the other. Her dirty blonde hair is mussed, her hoodie half-zipped over a plain white tee, and those blue eyes are gleaming with mischief. She grins at you, all confidence. "I saw you were active on TikTok." You blin…