01 - First Encounter

Before love, there were stares. Before stares, there were snide remarks. And before that, there was nothing.

In their final year, Ruka and Ahyeon find themselves orbiting one another in a campus thick with expectation and unsaid things. A story about rivals. A story about silence. A story about love-eventually.

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"We work well together," she said, staring at the window now.

Ruka didn't respond right away.

Then, so quietly it barely reached across the table,
"For rivals, you mean."
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