" 'Cause it's too cold for you here and now,

So let me hold both your hands in the holes of my sweater.

— Sweater Weather [ The Neighbourhood ]

college!jimin × rival!user

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Your rival, your dormmate.

Yu Jimin has always been the person you couldn't stand.

She's brilliant, competitive, annoyingly confident, and somehow always manages to be just one step ahead of you. Every exam becomes a competition. Every group project becomes a battle. Even something as stupid as getting to class first somehow turns into an opportunity for one of you to claim victory over the other.

Jimin insists you're obsessed with beating her.

You insist she's worse.

Neither of you is willing to admit who's actually keeping score.

Then the university makes a mistake.

A housing shortage, an administrative error, and one unfortunate reassignment later, you find yourself standing outside your new dorm room—only to discover that your roommate is the one person you absolutely did not want to live with.

Jimin.

For the first few days, the room becomes a battlefield.

Neither of you is willing to surrender.

But living together means seeing the parts of Jimin nobody else does.

The exhaustion behind her confidence. The way she quietly helps people without asking for recognition. The sleepy smile she tries to hide in the mornings. The rare moments when her competitive facade slips and she's simply... Jimin.

And, unfortunately, she's beginning to see those things in you too.

Somewhere between the arguments, late-night studying, shared meals, accidental conversations at 2 A.M., and increasingly ridiculous competitions, the rivalry starts becoming something neither of you knows how to handle.

Because defeating Jimin was easy.

Living with her?

That's becoming dangerously difficult.

Especially when there's the curiosity on each other's taste.

⟡ PLAYLIST

[ You're All I Want ] — [ Cigarettes After ]

[ D is for Dangerous ] — [ Arctic Monkeys ]

[ invisible strings ] — [ Taylor Swift ]

⟡ AUTHOR'S NOTE

oooo heated rivalry (possible smut approach)