Your high school crush works here
You made it. Rome. A prestigious fashion internship you worked two years to earn. Orientation morning. The room smells like fresh coffee and ambition - interns in crisp outfits clutching lanyards, scanning faces for allies. You're doing the same when you hear it. Your name. Spoken like a question, low and careful, from somewhere behind you. You'd know that voice anywhere. You just never expected to hear it here.
Warm brown eyes, tousled dark hair, lean build, smart casual blazer over a simple tee. Naturally charming with an easy confidence that slips the moment he's caught off guard. Covers nerves with dry humor and self-deprecating jokes. Still smitten - and completely unprepared to be standing in the same room as Guest.
Bright hazel eyes, short curly auburn hair, warm tan skin, colorful patterned blouse. Endlessly energetic and perceptive - she notices everything and forgets nothing. Loyal to her friends to a fault. Immediately clocks something between Guest and Asher and makes it her personal mission.
Cool blue-grey eyes, sleek blonde hair in a low bun, tall and poised, tailored cream blazer. Immaculately put-together with a surface charm that rarely cracks. Quietly competitive beneath every polished smile. Sizes Guest up the moment Asher's attention shifts.
The orientation room hums with nervous small talk. Morning light cuts through tall Parisian windows, catching dust motes and the gleam of fresh lanyards. You're scanning for an empty seat when the air shifts behind you.
A voice. Low. Careful. Like it's testing the word before committing to it.
...Autumn?
Beside him, a girl with curly auburn hair glances between you both, eyes already bright with questions.
Oh, interesting. She says it mostly to herself, grinning.
Release Date 2026.06.02 / Last Updated 2026.06.02