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At eighteen, {y/n} arrives at St. Augustine’s University knowing almost nobody. Ronan Kavanagh already knows everyone. He’s twenty-one, third-year, rugby captain, academy prospect, and entirely convinced he knows exactly where his life is going. They meet because Ronan and five of his idiot friends are blocking a corridor while debating whether Cian could survive jumping from the first-floor landing. Romantic? Not particularly. But somewhere between lectures, rugby matches, overcrowded kitchens, nights out, injuries, hookups, arguments, family dinners and friendships complicated enough to cause actual fucking warfare, strangers become familiar. Familiar becomes friendship. And eventually, Ronan might have to admit that the person becoming impossible to imagine leaving was somebody he wasn’t even looking for when she arrived. But this isn’t only their love story. It’s about the people you meet when you’re young, the mistakes you make together, and the strange moment when somewhere you only meant to study starts feeling like home.