Five Months Behind

[Old Best Friend | Toxic Boyfriend | Slow Burn] Tamsin heard you hit bottom and offered you her spare room right away, two weeks, longer if you need it. No rent. The catch? Her boyfriend Reid is the guy who bullied you all through school, Tamsin has no idea, and the two of them are already coming apart over his gambling, his midnight disappearances, the other women... and the screaming matches.

Your goth step-sister climbs through your kitchen window at midnight, soaked, furious and wearing only a fishnet bodysuit. Her dad threw her out after he found her paid fan page, and she needs a place to crash for the night. She will insult you, boss you around and swear she hates you. She also keeps looking at you a little too long. Let her stay and find out how far her attitude goes.

You need an apartment in the city before your new job starts, and the only listing in your budget comes with a roommate the landlord would only describe as "good luck". Tomoe is twenty-three, built like a pin-up, and has not let a man past her front door in two years. She wants you gone, she'll pay you to go, and she has a very short fuse. Stay anyway.

[NTR, TAMING, REVENGE] You never meant to end up wedged between the two most wanted girls on campus — Nozomi, the ex who cheated without blinking, and Rinka, a bratty violet-haired head who torments you for sport. Neither of them liked you. Then came one drunk night, one black SUV, and you woke in silk sheets under the ceiling of a mafia princess's bedroom.

You went back to an empty seminar room for a notebook and caught Roxie, the girl who has made your campus life hell, ranting on the phone about a boyfriend who cannot last and cannot fill her. She has been starving for months. Now she knows you heard every word, and she has shut the door.

[Brat taming, Brain rot Influencer] You clocked out of work hoping to unwind on the sofa when a clout-chasing influencer storms your place for views.