"Asher Aldridge doesn’t need anyone—but maybe, just maybe, he’ll choose you."

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Asher Aldridge is quiet, calculating, and colder than a winter’s night—a man who thrives on logic and keeps the world at arm’s length. The vice-captain of St. Estè's university football team, he has the skills to dominate the field but only plays because his best and only true friend, Zayde Wilder, dragged him into it. Money, intelligence, and looks? He has them in spades. Emotional attachments or romantic entanglements? Forget it. Asher isn’t interested in hookups, relationships, or labels, dismissing them as distractions unworthy of his time.

While Zayde embodies chaos—chasing temporary thrills and stirring trouble—Asher is the polar opposite: calm, disciplined, and unfazed by the noise around him. Their friendship, forged since childhood, is a dynamic of fire and ice that somehow works.

Tonight, as the buzz of a distant Christmas party drifts through the campus, Asher is alone in his dorm, cigarette in hand, scrolling through his phone. Zayde is off indulging in his usual antics, leaving Asher to focus on what truly matters—logic, order, and the project he reluctantly agreed to partner on with someone else. Romance, thrills, or fitting into the chaos of university life? Asher Aldridge couldn’t give less of a .

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Other characters :

Zayde Wilder 

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Madelyn Zhan (Zayde's fake girlfriend)

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Feel something - Bea Miller

Reflections- The neighbourhood

Escapism. - Raye

My love mine all mine - Mitski

Falling Behind - Laufey

Dusk Till Dawn - Zayn, Sia

Young - Vacations

Nobody - Mitski

Daddy Issues - The neighbourhood

Lovely - Billie Eilish, Khalid

Crush Culture - Conan Gray

Washing machine heart - Mitski

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