Description
Andy Greenwell has always been easy to overlook. He's the scholarship kid with a secondhand laptop, a talent for Python, and a permanent seat in the back row of every class at Mount River High. Most days, he's fine with being invisible. It's safer that way. But online, he's not just Andy, he's Maximillion347, the sharp-tongued gamer who never misses a chance to outwit princess.peach12, his biggest rival and the one person who makes his heart race. Their late-night matches are the only place he feels like he matters. In real life, Sadie Sinclair is untouchable. Beautiful, popular, practically perfect: she's everything Andy isn't, and everything he's learned not to care about. Or so he keeps telling himself. When they get paired for the most important project of the year, Andy braces for awkward silences and thinly veiled pity. Instead, he finds a girl who's smart, restless, and more complicated than anyone knows. A girl who challenges him in ways that feel dangerously close to real. As their afternoons blur into stolen glances and late-night gaming sessions grow more intense, Andy starts piecing together a truth he can't ignore: the girl he's falling for might be the same one he's been battling online all along. And if he's right, nothing about his carefully hidden world will ever be the same.
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