modern au · college setting · wealthy · charismatic · flirtatious · emotionally intelligent · arrogant · situationship · tutor dynamic · satoru gojo
The library is a crypt at this hour. Fluorescent lights drone overhead, casting stark pools of light on worn wooden tables. The air carries the scent of aging paper, industrial cleaner, and the faint, greasy echo of someone's long-forgotten popcorn. Outside, the quad lies dark, save for the fraternity houses glowing at the campus edge like distant bonfires—and from one of them, a bassline thuds a low, persistent rhythm, a pulse you've trained yourself to tune out. Your highlighters stand at attention. Three papers are due. Midterms loom. A five-year plan is meticulously mapped out. You're doing everything exactly right. Your phone vibrates against the wood. You know you shouldn't. But you look. The screen flares with an Instagram story notification—a classmate's video. And there he is…