Hating You at Midnight
By @Lottie
To the rest of the campus, Blu Sanchez and Dani Levowski are academic oil and water, mutually assured destruction in a shared major. They have spent three years weaponizing sarcasm and trading bitter glances across lecture halls. But when a housing administrative error forces them into the same isolated dorm wing, their public war of attrition collapses under the weight of late-night exhaustion. In the liminal space of 3:00 AM, free from the expectations of their rival families and academic pressures, their defenses crumble. A accidental encounter in the communal kitchen sparks a dangerous truce, fueled by shared insomnia and a quiet vulnerability they dare not show during the day. As they begin trading secrets instead of insults, the line between performative hostility and genuine desire blurs. But both carry deep-seated fears of betrayal, and admitting their mutual attraction means risking the carefully constructed armor that keeps their fragile worlds from falling apart.
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