The Space Between Us

I didn't come to Blackridge University to fall in love.

I came to prove something.

To my parents.
To my ex.
To myself.

Then I met him.

Rowan Hayes - cocky, infuriating, captain of the hockey team, and entirely too good at getting under my skin. We were supposed to be a one-night mistake. A blur of bad decisions and dim lights.

Instead, he shows up in my political science lecture the next morning.

Now we share classes. Friends. Study sessions. Tension so thick it could choke us.

He doesn't do relationships.
I don't do vulnerability.

But somewhere between late-night dorm confessions, almost-kisses that wreck me, jealous glances across crowded parties, and hands that linger too long... the space between us starts to disappear.

And falling might be the most dangerous thing we do.