"Not Love, Just Business (Maybe)"

At Grandview University, chaos was basically a course on its own. Between professors who thought PowerPoint slides were modern art, cafeteria rice that could double as building cement, and roommates who believed deodorant was "a capitalist scam," life was already funny enough.

But then there was Karenita Lopez-"K-Lo" to everyone on campus. A drama major with the energy of three telenovelas and a TikTok account dedicated solely to overacting. She walked like the hallways were her runway and spoke like everyone had subscribed to her personal Netflix series.

And then there was Derrick Johnson-quiet, chill, and dangerously allergic to gossip. He wasn't exactly shy; he just had a magical ability to avoid nonsense. Which unfortunately made him the number one target for the campus rumor mill. The latest? That Derrick was secretly gay-only because he had mastered the art of ignoring clingy girls and focusing on surviving his assignments.

K-Lo and Derrick weren't enemies, but they weren't friends either. They shared a special brand of mutual mockery: trading funny, fake-annoyed looks whenever they passed in the hallway. It was the kind of interaction where other students whispered, "They're either going to fight or get married."

Nobody expected K-Lo to be the one to flip the script. One random afternoon, she marched up to Derrick in the middle of the hall-like it was an episode finale-and proposed. Not out of love. Not out of destiny. But because K-Lo was tired of being single, and Derrick was tired of the gay rumor parade.

So, to everyone's shock, Derrick said yes.
And that's how the strangest, funniest fake relationship on campus began... a deal that was supposed to stop the drama but ended up writing the most unexpected love story of Grandview University.