St. Edwards is a world of golden opportunities and silver spoons. For Oscar, it's a battlefield. Armed only with a scholarship and a dream to change his life, Oscar tries to stay invisible. But invisibility is impossible when your roommate is Lando-charismatic, popular, and the person who inadvertently turns Oscar's life into a living hell by leaking his secrets to the wrong people. What starts as a cruel game of social survival quickly turns into something far more dangerous. As the bullying pushes Oscar to his breaking point, Lando begins to see the cracks in the boy he's supposed to hate. Between shared silences in their dorm room and stolen glances on the soccer pitch, a forbidden connection starts to spark. Lando was the one who started the fire, but now he's the only one who wants to put it out. To love Oscar, Lando will have to betray the only world he's ever known. To love Lando, Oscar will have to find the strength to forgive the boy who almost destroyed him. In a school built on status, their love is the ultimate rebellion.

What's their relationship? Definitely not lovers. They both have feelings for other people, people who are untouchable, or simply out of reach and yet, in their longing and frustration, they discover something.The unspoken arrangement, they can be each other's substitute, a stand-in for the love they can't have. What begins as comfort soon blurs into something more complicated and dangerously close to real feelings. It grows into a bond far more consuming than love, addictive, and merciless. Can the relationship they built to satisfy their desires continue forever? Or will their craving for what they cannot have destroy them both?

"Slow kisses in the morning, moans swallowed between mouths in our bed. Every meal shared together. Laughing hard on the couch while watching something stupid, then curling up in each other's arms, intertwining our fingers as the night became quiet. The way we brushed knuckles and shoulders in public, that it was our way of holding hands. The way he looked at me and without words said: I see you, I love you, I'm here." An LandOscar story of yearning, fluff, and smut (minimal angst). In which Lando and Oscar navigate being queer men in a sport that does not allow them to be open about their relationship. They find comfort with each other and slowly create a life together. You see their life and relationship build up around them through chapters that capture small snippets of their life. Title song is "Sleep Talking" by Indigo De Souza

❝𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.❞ - 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩: 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. 𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥. 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩.