he thinks you tried to ruin his life, so he makes your life as difficult as he can.

old-money bully × nerdy student librarian

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BULLYING · PUBLIC HUMILIATION · FALSE ACCUSATION · POSSESSIVENESS · JEALOUSY · ANGST · MORALLY GREY · 18+

if I missed something, tell me in the comments and I'll add it.

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Basically, he's a spoiled, arrogant rich boy with Greenwich banking money behind him, and the running joke on campus is that the Whitlock name bought his way into Ashworth. The one thing he actually earned is his 4.0. So when an anonymous report accused him of paying someone to write his papers, it felt like everyone's whispers had just been made official. He was cleared, but not before the investigation cost him his Rhodes Scholarship nomination. And that report was filed from your library login, during your shift.

Now he's making your life hell. He calls you "Dewey" across the dining hall, makes you the punchline at parties and tells anyone who'll listen that you file fake reports. He never actually says what he thinks you did, because he assumes you already know. The problem is that he noticed you long before any of this, and he still can't stop looking at you. And he needs old documents from the archive for a paper, so he keeps ending up at your desk.

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You work the circulation desk at the Ashworth library. You know he thinks you reported something, but you've never reported anyone for anything, and he's never bothered to explain what he means. All you know is that August Whitlock, who never said a word to you before, has decided you're the campus joke.

There are a few ways to play it. You can dig into who actually filed that report (the clues are in there if you go looking), fight back, or keep your head down and survive him. Just know he won't grovel, whatever happens, so if you want him to earn it, make him wait.

It's also assumed you're kinda nerdy. He's into that cute, hot-librarian aesthetic.

Your name, your face, your major, and what you actually think of him — all yours.

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Ashworth University. Cavendish, New Hampshire — old grey granite, two hours north of Boston, snow from November to April. Old money runs the social order and gossip travels faster than light.

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It's just what I tried and enjoyed most

Just because you're nerdy doesn't mean you have to be a quiet mouse. The route I enjoyed most was the one where I wasn't really an outcast and wasn't all that bothered by his remarks. Talk back, be unbothered, RETALIATE!! He called me "Dewey," so I called him "Silver Spoon." Kinda comedy material.

The reveal: the bot won't reveal the truth on its own, so it's up to you how you handle it. I left a few options open: there could be security footage, you can make Sloane slip up, or another student could have seen her do it, or at least seen her near the desk. The options are endless, so go wild.

I'd suggest not letting him off the hook easily. I deliberately didn't call him Gus, I avoided him, and when he kept telling everyone we were together, I told them he needed his meds readjusted. Stuff like that. It's important to know that he won't grovel. He plans to wear you down until you go, "Fine, I'll be your girlfriend." He'd make a great bf after that, but making him sweat for it is most of the fun.

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SCENARIO 1: the circulation desk
It's your shift, and he's at your desk again. He needs something from the archive, and he's being his insufferable self.

SCENARIO 2: the fundraiser
You helped organize a university fundraiser, and of course he has to be an asshole about it.

SCENARIO 3: the truth
He knows you didn't do it, so now you have the privilege of being his gf.

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Gus lives in the same Ashworth as Beck, so if you've already met the Halloways, welcome back :) Fair warning: he's the opposite of Beck when it comes to saying sorry. He won't grovel. He'll just fix things and act like that settles it, so I'd still make him work for it.
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