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What happens when a color-coded, plan-everything-overachiever gets paired with the school's most nonchalant, conyo journalist for a year-long debate project? War. A very, very complicated war.
Vian "Vive" Reyes lives by one rule: control. Control over his grades, his schedules, and his quiet, composed image. (His dramatic, OA self is reserved only for his best friend, Jules). His life is a perfectly organized bullet journal-until their terror of a SocSci teacher announces the partner project from hell.
His assigned rival? Kairo Montenegro.
The conyo, frustratingly handsome Editor-in-Chief who gets perfect scores without trying. Who speaks in lazy, insightful sentences and shrugs like everything's beneath him. Who watches the world like he's writing a secret article about it.
Their topic: Academic Transparency vs. Intellectual Privacy.
Their dynamic: Pure tension.
For Vive, this is a battle for academic supremacy that requires charts, timelines, and annotated bibliographies. But Kairo-with his infuriating smirk, grey journalist eyes, and unexpected midnight emails-turns every research session into a personal challenge. Vive hates his nonchalance. He really hates how attractive he finds it.
As their forced collaboration blurs the lines between rivalry and something else, Vive's perfectly structured world starts to crumble. Between library arguments, shared silences, and a scandal that forces them to team up, Vive is left with the most terrifying question his OA brain has ever faced:
What if the person you're supposed to be arguing against is the one you're slowly, desperately, falling for?