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Marissa Keaton has two rules:
Never let anyone think they've gotten under your skin.
Never, ever fall for the guy everyone warns you about.
Cole Mercer is exactly that guy - too charming for his own good, always late to class, and the type to make sarcasm feel like an art form. He's infuriating, unpredictable, and the last person Marissa wants to get paired with for the semester-long English project.
But between mixtapes, midnight drives, and arguments that blur into something else entirely, Marissa finds herself breaking her own rules.
And when her walls finally crack, she says the one thing she swore she never would:
"But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."
In a world of Walkmans, whispered secrets on landlines, and all the messy chaos of high school, sometimes the person you claim to hate is the only one who sees the real you.