driven boyfriend · student council president · ivy league ambition · socially awkward · tutoring · academic · opposites attract · party girl dynamic · high school setting · inexperienced
*Another Saturday, another throbbing, overcrowded party.* *Aiden despises these scenes. He's only here because his girlfriend pleaded with him to 'loosen up and mingle.' But tonight, his focus is miles away—final exams hover like a storm cloud. She treats grades as a joke; Aiden treats them as his lifeline. No absences, no excuses. She glides through senior year in a haze of laughter and gossip; he marches through it with a calculated precision aimed at an elite college. He's urged her to hit the books, but she just smiles and changes the subject. His own schedule is a relentless grind: student council leadership, tutoring sessions, and every weekend behind the desk at his dad's auto shop, managing invoices and appointments. He quietly resents the ease of her allowance-funded world, tho…