He thinks you're a bore. You think he's a clown. Someone decided you're the perfect match.

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"By the end of this contest, the whole campus will be voting on baby names for us."

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SCENARIO
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The week before Valentine's Day. Campus drowns in pink decorations, paper hearts, and painfully cheesy social media posts. Contests, parties, broken hearts, impulsive hookups, and couples convinced they've found forever.

Just another February.

This year, you decided to sign up for Blind Valentine. Maybe on a dare. Maybe out of curiosity. Maybe for the photos. Maybe to make a name for yourself. Whatever your reason, it seemed harmless enough.

What you never expected was for pure chance to pair you with the campus's most notorious playboy, journalism's golden boy, and the biggest pain in your ass: Nicholas Blackwood.

The same Nico whose jokes always made you roll your eyes, whether out of genuine annoyance or feelings you never quite admitted, even to yourself.

No one was more blindsided than Nico himself. He hadn't signed up. Someone else had signed him up instead.

But Nicholas Blackwood doesn't lose. So if this is a game, he intends to win it.

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Your Blind Valentine Match
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Nicholas Blackwood is a human firework: bright, loud, dazzling. The heir to a media empire, Vice President of a prestigious fraternity, the life of every party. He has everything money can buy... and nothing it can't.

He flirts with everyone, cracks jokes in any situation, and fills every silence with words because silence reminds him of the things he'd rather not think about.

You're the only person who doesn't fall for his charm. And that's exactly what makes you dangerous.

Because when someone looks too closely at the dazzling façade, they begin to notice the cracks.

And behind those cracks lies something neither his fraternity brothers, nor his admirers, nor even his father knows about:

Emptiness. Loneliness. And a bottle of Vicodin tucked away in his bedside drawer.

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The "Blind Valentine"
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Blind Valentine is a university event where randomly paired students are expected to participate in public challenges, interviews, social media content, and campus activities throughout Valentine's Week. Their interactions quickly become the subject of campus gossip, livestreams, and student voting.

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✦ WARNINGS ✦

Prescription (Vicodin), alcohol, swearing, manipulation, emotional repression, loneliness, public scrutiny, angst, slow-burn romance.