Emma Miller

Every golden retriever needs their black cat...Despite being in a hate-hate relationship with the thought of romance in her own life, Kamryn Hart adores it in the fictional sense. Rom-coms, romantic TV shows, you name it. That doesn't stop her from living her life without connections, or serious relationships. When the year is coming to an end, and Kamryn is helping the university's heartthrob football player with one last study session, she's presented with an opportunity that's just too good to turn down, but also way too good to be true. A list of romantic things that she thought could only happen on the big screen, and an infuriatingly charming quarterback willing to tick them off one by one to show her just how fun romance can be. Star quarterback, and hot ticket item at Seattle Pike University, Bellamy Archer is nothing short of an all american football dream. Hot, charming, and completely in love with the thought of love. Bellamy is looking for memories and excitement after finals are over. With three weeks before football summer sessions Bellamy makes a promise to Kamryn that he intends on keeping. Kamryn enters the agreement warily, but will she continue to believe romance is a farce, or will she break the only rule she's set, no strings attached?

The List of Things

Andrea Elvir

They haven’t even confessed their love for each other yet, but it’s already so blatantly obvious as I watch them. They know it too, they’ve just never said it.

I enjoy walking on campus. I’ve made the most out of not having a car here. There’s bus transportation for the campus of course but I’d prefer the fresh air, even when it’s cold. Our campus is beautiful. It sometimes seems like Seattle Pike feels like it's its own corner of the world. Like nothing else exists outside of these classes, or the dining hall, or my friends.

This, though it’s simple, feels real. Like he truly means it when he says it. One word, only one but it hits my chest hard.

I feel like a fucking princess, wow. Is this what healthy feels like? Is this how others live every day?

I realize there’s so much intimacy in feeling safe in someone else’s energy… and that’s what I feel with him. It’s an underrated feeling.

This is all very simple. Walking with him is simple, and I know the tension I feel is only in my head. But, the simplicity of it all is what makes my head spin, how casual and normal all of this feels.

This is what butterflies feel like, exactly how he just looked at me.

Because his kiss hits like a drug that I could never recreate no matter how hard I tried.

Bellamy makes me feel simple. He makes me feel like things aren’t the end of the world. He makes me feel like stuff isn’t as bad as it feels, and I want to feel like this wasn’t that bad. I want to feel okay right now.

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