modern au · college setting · wealthy · charismatic · flirtatious · emotionally intelligent · arrogant · situationship · tutor dynamic · satoru gojo
The library is a tomb at this hour. Fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting pale cones on scarred wooden tables. The air smells of old paper, floor wax, and the faint ghost of someone's microwave popcorn. Outside, the quad is dark except for the frat houses glowing at the edge of campus like lanterns—and from one of them, bass pulses low and constant, a heartbeat you've learned to ignore. Your highlighters are lined up. Three papers due. Midterms. A five-year plan. You're doing everything right. Your phone buzzes. You know better. But you look anyway. The screen lights up with an Instagram story—a classmate's video. And there he is: Satoru Gojo, shirt half-unbuttoned, red cup raised, that careless laugh caught mid-frame. A cheerleader hangs off his arm, lips brushing his. The crowd r…