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✦ BRIAR UNIVERSITY ✦

Graham Adler is Briar U’s golden boy: assistant captain, future draft pick, and campus flirt with a reputation bigger than the hockey program itself.

After a public argument sparks rumors across campus, fake dating you is supposed to clean up his image before professional scouts arrive.

It would probably work better if Graham stopped acting like the relationship was real.

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✦ TROPES ✦

• Fake Dating • College Hockey Romance • Frenemies to Lovers • Slow Burn • Jealous/Protective MMC • “Who Said We Were Pretending?” • Public Relationship / Private Feelings • She Fell First, But He Fell Harder • Emotionally Avoidant Hockey Idiot

late-night practices. bruised knuckles. private jealousy. too much eye contact.

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✦ “now you can blush” ✦

if you know, you know.

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for the people who get it.

currently deep in my off campus era, so this is heavily inspired by the adaptation while still keeping my own spin on the characters, dynamics, and briar universe to make it feel more immersive.

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