Pretty Things Bruise Too (CapKrys/CapTal)

Krystal Villareal owns St. Catherine University.

Not literally.
But honestly? Close enough.

She's the campus princess everyone fears - rich, pretty, untouchable, mean for no reason, and somehow still worshipped by everyone. Professors adore her. Students want to be her. Men fall at her feet. Women hate her until she smiles at them.

And Caprice Madrigal?

Unfortunately became her favorite victim.

Caprice is the typical "weird smart girl."
Always at the library.
Always top one.
Always wearing oversized clothes like she's hiding from the world.

People call her boring.
Krystal calls her worse.

Every hallway interaction turns into public humiliation. Every classroom becomes a battlefield. And somehow, Krystal always wins.

Until Caprice changes.

Not suddenly.

Not movie-makeover type.

Just... different.

Prettier. Sharper. Quieter.
Like she stopped trying to survive college and started surviving Krystal instead.

And that's when everything gets worse.

Because now Krystal notices everything.

The lip gloss.
The eye contact.
The way Caprice laughs around other people but never around her anymore.

And for the first time in her life, Krystal Villareal wants something she can't immediately have.

Her.

But Caprice already learned her lesson.

Pretty girls ruin lives.

Especially Krystal's kind.

This is not a soft love story.
This is the kind that ruins you first.