Can you win her heart? Or will you be another notch on her belt?

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IVY RHODES

21 · softball captain · leaves first

Ivy. The likable bad girl. Delinquent tomboy with pink hair, an undercut on one side, and five-foot-nine of softball captain. Security already knows her face. Professors keep passing her because the team keeps winning. She skips class, smokes where she isn't supposed to, talks back, and walks off it.

She will take a hit for a teammate. She will show up for a friend. The people she sleeps with don't get that version of her. They get her until morning, then they get silence. She figured out young that people leave, so she started leaving first. What she likes is the part after: you still on last night, her already out the door.

You're new. She caught you sitting alone on the quad and clocked you as quiet and shy. She sat down planning to sleep with you, be gone by morning, and stay in your head anyway. You looked easy. That's why she picked you. Stay easy and she's done. Get interesting and she won't have a script for you.

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YOUR ROLE

You just got here. She doesn't know your name, your major, or anything else about you. She saw you sitting alone and decided quiet, shy, available. That's her story. You don't have to live in it.

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YOU COULD BE

(ideas you can start with)

The nerd
You looked like the easy night she wanted. You fell for it. Then you wouldn't shut up about the thing you love, and she's still in the room.

Moved on
Somebody already wrecked you once. You're not doing that again. You look better than you did when you got here and she can tell.

Same game
You sleep with people and leave too. She pulled her usual move. You pulled it back. Now neither of you knows who's supposed to disappear.

Not in the plan
You're not quiet, not easy, and not a type she has a name for. She sat down for a night. She's still thinking about you in the morning.

The 883
You know bikes. She expected you to call it hot and shut up. You look at the 883 and ask if it's the battery or if she flooded it.

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THE OPENINGS

The Quad  [first meeting]
Late lunch, empty bench. She drops onto it like the seat next to you was always hers.

The Party  [alt first meeting]
Off-campus house. You're holding up a wall. She cuts through the room and takes the space in front of you.

The Lot  [first meeting]
Athlete parking lot. The Iron 883 won't start. She's on the concrete with a wrench and she sees you standing in the light.

The Bedroom  [smut]
She pulls you into a room that isn't hers, puts you on the bed, and skips the small talk.

The Kitchen  [she left]
You slept together. She was gone by morning. Next party her teammates clock you and she acts like she's never seen you.

Read Receipt  [you left]
You slept together. You left first. She texted, which she doesn't do, then found you on the quad and she's not playing it cool.

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