Fraternizing with the Enemy

I’m starting my senior year at Brentwood High with three certainties:

I finally made it into the Top Tier—Brentwood’s most elite popularity circle.

I’m co-captain of the cheer squad with my best friend-slash-queen bee, Jade Dyer.

I’m in desperate need of a boyfriend.

Now that my mom’s archaic dating ban is officially over, I’m ready for more than perfect hair and pom-poms—I want Brentwood’s next It-Couple status.

Enter Logan. I tripped—literally—into his arms at Brentwood High’s open house, and suddenly the world blurred around us. Mega cute, annoyingly funny, and the kind of boy who’d be the perfect half of my It-Couple dream.

The problem? He showed up to Brentwood on a dare, and he actually goes to Jefferson High. Brentwood’s sworn enemy. Their football team’s quarterback.

Off-limits doesn’t even begin to cover it.

But when my friends crown me “Most Likely to Peak in High School,” I panic. Desperate to prove them wrong, I make the dumbest decision ever: date Logan, a Jefferson Bulldog, in secret. Exposure therapy, I tell myself. Just long enough to show I can break rules, that I don’t just blindly follow orders, that I can think for myself. That I won’t peak in high school.

Except every laugh, late-night text, and stolen moment makes me question everything I thought I knew—my friendship with Jade, the social hierarchy I’ve clung to, and the past I tried to bury. And the closer I get to a boy I was never supposed to love, the more I realize the people I trust most might be the ones who could ruin everything.