Moonlight tides FF

"you hate me."
"I've hated you since we were five."
"then why does it feel like you're the only one who really knows me?"

Luke and Mick grew up trapped together-neighbors, rivals, forced friends every summer thanks to the legendary Vacation Buddies trips.
At school, they pretended they were strangers.
At home, they pretended they didn't care.
But university doesn't let them pretend anymore.

Luke's the storm everyone avoids.
Mick's the sunshine he can't stand.
Everybody sees them as opposites-no one knows they spent their entire childhoods sharing cabins, beaches, and late-night arguments that felt too much like something else.

Ken's the kind of bad boy who doesn't need to try.
Paul's the quiet genius who never talks to him on campus.
But summer memories don't disappear just because the school year starts, and Paul keeps seeing flashes of the boy he used to sit beside under fireworks, not the boy with a rumor for every hallway.

Aston is logic.
Chukon is chaos.
One is the good boy teachers trust.
One is the bad boy parents warn about.
They grew up side-by-side, closer than anyone realizes-until university throws them back into the same space, and the distance they created starts to feel impossible to keep.

And now, in their first year of university, the six boys find themselves surrounded by new circles-new friends who make everything messier.
Friends who don't know their shared past.
Friends who don't know these "strangers" grew up together.
Friends who might pull them closer... or push them apart.

They were supposed to leave the Vacation Buddies behind.
But the past didn't stay buried.
And neither did the feelings.