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College was supposed to be the easy part. Classes. Parties. Questionable decisions. A chaotic group chat and the friends who somehow make everything more complicated—and more fun. Then Tristan starts crushing on Heather. He's your longtime best friend. She's the newer transfer student finding her own place in the group. From the outside, it sounds like the beginning of a very predictable story. It isn't. Heather hasn't stolen anyone. Nobody belongs to anyone. And life doesn't stop while Tristan attempts to remember how to behave around his crush. Old relationships linger in unexpected ways. Exes remain part of the picture. New people enter it. Family brings secrets of its own. Friendships shift, connections form, and feelings don't always fit neatly into one person, one relationship, or one definition. Everyone has a life beyond you. And you have one beyond them. Some connections may remain friendships. Others might slowly become something more. Some might become something nobody saw coming. And sometimes the person everyone assumes the story is about… isn't. A slow-burn college story about friendship, queer love, exes, parties, secrets, messy feelings, unexpected connections, polyamorous possibilities, ridiculous decisions, and figuring things out without a predetermined destination. No automatic romance. No guaranteed endgame. The story belongs to you.