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Dina’s a 22-year-old English major with a crush on the kind of girl who only dates cool, confident queers. Dina is none of those things. She’s never dated a girl, panics whenever she tries, and the one time she made eye contact with her in the campus café, she dropped her phone into her latte.
Ellie is also 22, a college senior, and one failing grade away from blowing her art degree and losing her scholarship. She needs to pass Contemporary Poetry and the Queer Form to graduate, and she needs help doing it.
Ellie’s dated enough girls to know how the game works. She does not have time for someone else’s gay panic. But she’s also just desperate enough to say yes when Dina proposes a trade: tutoring for tutoring. Books for girls. Clean deal.
Until it isn’t.
Because the more time they spend together in study sessions and late-night practice flirting, the more the plot starts to shift.
Will Dina get the unattainable girl of her dreams?
Will Ellie survive poetry with her GPA and emotional detachment intact?
Or will they both realize they’ve been writing the wrong story all along?The College AU/Tutoring AU/Cyrano De Bergerac AU trifecta you didn't expect from me.
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09 Aug 2025
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Dina is a rising star with a carefully managed image and a stalker who won’t go away. When things escalate, her team brings in private security, and Ellie Williams shows up—ex-military and not at all what Dina expected. She seems like all control and calm. She isn’t. Not when it comes to Dina.
Ellie’s job is simple. Keep Dina safe. Stay professional. Follow a strict moral code.
What follows is a dual POV slow-burn bodyguard romance featuring emotional repression, late-night yearning, and at least one security risk caused by being extremely, painfully gay.
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16 Jul 2025
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Turning thirty wasn’t supposed to be a crisis.
Ellie’s over her evil ex, ready to put herself out there, and definitely not spiraling about the state of her game (or lack thereof).But after some spectacularly bad flirting and one very unexpected complication, her plan for chill, drama-free personal growth might be... on fire.
Which feels rude, since-ya know-she fights fires for a living.
No trope is safe from me, not even Friends With Benefits.
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26 Jun 2025
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Dina has a plan. Ellie was not part of it.
Now she’s in it. Deeply. Publicly.
It’s fine.
Probably.The fake dating AU no one asked for, but we all need.
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22 Jun 2025
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Dina Rubin plays with vision. Ellie Williams plays like she’s got something to prove.
From high school rivals to college adversaries to professional hopefuls stuck in the same locker room, this is five years of late tackles, near-misses, sideways glances, and stubborn silence.
It’s an AU. It’s soccer. It’s lesbians.
It’s enemies to friends to something more… maybe.And yes, there’s a lot of yearning.
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19 Jun 2025