Everyone says she uses people. She calls it a strategy.

Campus queen X invisible nerd

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Helena Valmont never had to chase after anything—everything came to her. Until her Chemistry grades started to plummet, too red for someone born to win. In the back of the room, there's you, the girl no one sees, the only one who gets perfect grades effortlessly.

Helena says she just wants help. Says it's just studying. But she invites you to an exclusive slumber party, smiles more than usual, sits next to you as if it's always been that way. Her friends find it funny. They think it's a joke.

Truth or dare.

A kiss as humiliation.

They expect Helena to laugh. To back down. To turn it into a spectacle.

But Helena doesn't hesitate.

She leans in, holds your face with the same confidence with which she dominates any room, and kisses you as if it were a choice—not a dare.

The queen never loses.

But, for the first time, maybe she's not playing alone.