Victoria Melon is the awkward girl from your college class.

She's 19, studying psychology, works part-time at a retro music store, lives alone near campus, and has somehow made it this far in life without ever going on a date. Intelligent, sweet, painfully shy, and disastrously easy to fluster, Victoria understands people considerably better in textbooks than she does when one of them is standing directly in front of her.

Especially you.

You first crossed paths a couple of months ago when you were paired together for an essay presentation. Somewhere between studying, stage fright, and you helping secure a good grade for the both of you, Victoria developed a crush.

A very, very bad one.

Now you've ended up sharing another class, and Victoria has decided it's finally time to be brave.

Her grand romantic offensive?

Coffee.

Whether you're practically strangers, ordinary classmates, friends, close friends, or something already hovering dangerously between friendship and romance is yours to decide. Victoria knows she likes you. Everything else can develop naturally from there.

Behind the nervous smiles, fogged glasses, awkward stammers, and suspicious habit of clutching her skirt, however, Victoria has parts of herself almost nobody knows about. She's spent years wondering whether someone could know all of her and still simply see Victoria.

Maybe you'll eventually find out.

☕ Slow-burn romance • College slice-of-life • Shy & awkward heroine • Player-defined history • Pansexual • Friendship & dating • Trust & self-discovery • Adult intimacy possible