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    Zoey doesn’t know how long she stands there in the middle of her room, gawking at the notification flashing at her screen.

    Well, notifications, plural. They’re back to back on her home screen, right under all her social media notifications of people showering her with likes for today’s breakfast.

    Ryu Rumi sent you $250.00
    “For lunch! Let me know if you need more xo”

    Kang Mira sent you $501.00
    “lmk if she sent more than 500, I can double it lol”

    Zoey loudly declares, “What the HELL?”

    Or, broke college student Zoey goes viral for her revolting college meals—and rich girls Rumi and Mira find a little pity (among other things) in their hearts for her.

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    03 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    Rumi has always been a hard worker, focused on her ambitions. Her life has always been characterised by precise actions, by a daily routine to follow, a goal etched in her mind: to become one of the greatest football players in history. She never had a slip-up in her life in order to achieve this. Or at least, it was like that until two months ago, when a bubbly girl suddently appeared in her life. From that moment on Rumi's life has turned upside down. Whether for better or worse, she still can't tell.

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    25 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    contrition - n.
    the quiet act of loving someone while believing you have no right to be near them.

    Love does not begin as permission for Rumi, only as something she learns to hide.

    When she meets Zoey, it feels inevitable: first closeness, then intimacy, then years of almost-saying what neither of them fully understands. Zoey believes in what is present; Rumi survives in what must remain unseen.

    But Rumi is not only withholding her heart - she is withholding the truth of what she is. And as time presses forward toward the events that will break everything open, desire and secrecy begin to collapse into the same fault line.

    In the end, love is no longer something they can mistake for simplicity.

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    03 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 77

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    She'd like to see them, pretty please. Touch them, even. Feel them ripple underneath her. But first she needs to take all her clothes off—something made more difficult by the fact that for some reason, Rumi is wearing three fucking belts.

    Zoey slides her hands between their bodies, scrambling to undo the first one.

    "We need to have a word with your stylist about these decisions they're making," Zoey huffs as the metal buckle opens up. She tugs on the leather until it slips loose and then tosses it to the side.

    "I thought you liked the outfit?" Rumi manages a laugh despite the clear tension in her voice, swallowing as Zoey presses her hands against the plane of her stomach.

    Zoey gives her a look. "Well they clearly weren't thinking of me when they put you in it!"

    OR: Zoey & Rumi are on separate tours, finally perform in the same city after two weeks, stumble into their hotel room and fuck about it

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    31 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 90

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    Rumi exhales slowly, eyes drifting shut for a second before closing her notebook quietly. It’s shoved into her bag along with her pen, not even bothering to store it in her pencil case like she always does without fail.

    That’s the thing about… this whole thing. It disrupts her order. Her control. It makes her do things she wouldn’t usually do for herself or others. Makes her feel good about wanting and taking however much she wants.

    And Rumi would be lying if she said she didn’t like the secrecy of it all.

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    Popular cheerleader Zoey x Nerdy loser Rumi have a dirty little secret

    *Prompt by Biyo (@pumpkin_flee) on Twitter/X!!!*

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    30 May 2026