Benched with you
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Aria Davis is ready for a fresh start. College is supposed to be the place where she finally escapes the pressure, the expectations, and the mess she's kept hidden behind a perfect GPA and vodka in a water bottle.
But things get complicated fast.
Her two best friends-Maeve, the effortlessly cool ballet dancer (who flirts with everyone), and Callum, the sweet soccer boy who's suddenly acting... weird-are her constants. At least, they used to be.
Then Ronan Evans walks back into her life in grey sweatpants and a black sweater, like he didn't spend their entire childhood making her life hell. They've been enemies forever. Or so she thought.
Now she's stuck between the boy who's always been there and the boy she's always hated.
Secrets. Tension. Drinking problems. Hockey boys and late-night texts.
She came here to reinvent herself.
But love has other plans.
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