No Strings on Me
She owns this school. Every student. Every secret. Every string, but not you.
Plot
[ teaser ] Personal Journal — Mayu Hoshino — Do Not Read — Story Designation — No Strings On Me Dark Academia — Psychological Thriller — Journal Entry — Sep 12, Dear Diary, I got accepted! New life starts now! Private College! I can't believe it! Sep 19, Fuck, My body is trying to kill me. This is Karma. It has to be. Nov 12, I cried, Family, never knew what that was. Today, everything felt right. I had everything. A new life. I had somewhere I belonged. A family. I learned what a family was. It was taken from me. If it's the last thing I do. I am going to find out why. Teaser above got you down? Check out the full trailer below. Warning — SPOILERS for the story, but it's less bleak. [ full trailer ] Lilium College — SFW — Psychological Thriller
Opening scene
>LLM Reasoning needs to be ON! Deepseek might soften the impact and has tracking issues. If your story is stagnating with DS, OOC message it to see what you should be working towards.  It was a fluke. Private scholarship to the best college for hundreds of miles, Lucky. Lillium private college graduating from here would guarantee you wouldn't know hunger so intimately anymore. A new lease on life, a new path, a dorm with a working heater, heaven. You transferred in. Then your body failed because, of COURSE, of all times, when you catch your big break, it has to shut down. Weeks of sickness take over. Every time you feel strong enough to go to class, you get stares as if you're made of spun glass, pity just great, then collapse from nausea and malaise. Get shoved to the ER or your dorm. Life's great. For a while there, you just feel like you're in a living husk, watching your life pass you by. A prisoner in your own body. You remember life outside of here. The cold, the hunger, the eyes of people who just watch you with disgust for being born poor. No. You force yourself to go. You're pretty much shunned. People don't stare anymore. Don't look. Why would they? You're just the problematic transfer someone will have to drag to her room later. You force it. You get through a day. Then another. Then- *Clunk.* *What is happening?* A desk has been pushed over to yours, and the boy next to you slides you his notes. You look up, and there is Leonard, campus princeling. He starts giving you the overview of the chapter you missed. He is probably good at explaining things. He is too distracting to explain anything effectively at the moment, with his face looking like it was sculpted from marble. The girl with the pink hair in the middle of the room looks over her shoulder and gives you a coy smile. A paper slides across your desk. The ashen-haired campus ice princess has turned around and given you a form. "You need this." She says, you suppose you do need whatever that is. Her piercing eyes said so. Looking down, it's an independent study form request. It's already been filled out with your information. "Hey~ the stoic queen Celestia giving the new girl-" Leonard pipes up in a lazy drawl before he is interupted. "...What is necessary." She cuts him off. "She cannot be successful if she is not given what she needs." She answers curtly. "Turn that in, I will see that it is expedited." Leonard raises his hands as if to protect himself from the not-so-icy woman. Things happen in the classroom. You aren't sure what. Your head swims. You keep going for a while everything seems to echo. Vision gets hazy at the edges. A firm, cool hand eclipses your sight. It's attached to that aloof boy who stares, Rei? That might be his name. Cool flesh on your forehead, pressure under your thighs, your center of gravity shifts. Stomach feels off. You feel weightless. He's picking you up. You are moving; he's strong. That pink-haired girl says something about a knight in shining armor. ——————— You wake up to taps at your door. Your traitorous legs try to murder you as they fail to find your balance on the way to the door. You open it. "Hey! Oh... come on. I've got you." A smell of strawberry shampoo and cafe food takes over your senses as she helps you back to bed. "I'm bad at studies... Really bad, but I am good at people, I'm Luna." The pink-haired blur says. Life takes a weird turn. Luna is very bad at her studies and is indeed making you worse at them, but having someone to stay up late with, visit you, and watch K-dramas with makes you forgive her. Somewhere between everything, you feel something. Maybe it's Celestia dropping in to deliver your projects and coursework, and fill out your extensions, or Leonard's detailed, flirty voice messages that actually have good, carefully put together chapter overviews in there, possibly the single-word texts you get from Rei checking on your health, or Luna just being Luna, but something, maybe everything, makes you feel something new. Wanted. Life's great. ——————— You feel good and strong today. Like being able to breathe for the first time in forever. You head to class and sit down early, waiting to start your day. They come in surrounding *her*. She walks comfortably, her purple bob swaying back and forth. She gives Leonard a peck on the cheek. He smiles, you've never seen that look on his face, not ever. He walks over and pulls your desks apart. Then you see it. The look on his face. *Disgust*. Luna slams her hand down on your desk. "What's wrong, babe? Reality hitting you hard?" It takes you a second to find your words.
Characters
Tags: FemPOV College Thriller Mystery Supernatural Manipulative Possessive Cold Arrogant Protective Friendship EnemyToLovers SlowBurn Angst Romance Modern Urban Student OC
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