hellooooo
I know you probably get this ask a lot, but do you know any new-ish rivals to lovers fics set in high school/college/uni? preferably long ones 🥹 (i already went through your hs/uni tag on the big rec thingy)
thank you ❤️🩹
Hi, anon! You're very welcome! Here are some more recent ones for you! I've read the first one, but the other two looked good as well and like what you're looking for!
Springbrooke by skipper / @skipperxao3
Springbrooke is a small town, rich and filled with perfection.
At the start of his senior year, Harry, an omega with no desire to fit in, meets Zayn, an Alpha with no desire to stand out. With him, he makes a pledge to survive one year, his final year at Springbrooke High, and he’s determined to make the best of it. He struggles through new relationships along with the old, discovering the true meaning of love and friendships in ways he never expected.
To Harry, each day that passes is one day closer to breaking free and his chance to leave without looking back. Though he soon learns, in the end, it’s not leaving that matters, but what you take with you when you go.
The Exceptionals by Mia_Small
It's 1984.
First impressions may be misleading, but that doesn’t stop Louis from wanting to know about the notorious boy with absent eyes and a mocking smile who is purposefully trying to ruin his life.
Or an 80s College AU where Louis absolutely detests Harry and his cocky personality... until he doesn't?
The Theory of Us by happyhazza94
A prestigious university in London, known for its cutthroat academia and political undertones. Both Harry and Louis are esteemed professors in the English department-intellectual giants in their own right, but polar opposites in personality, teaching style, and personal values. Harry and Louis have butted heads for years. Their debates are legendary-public lectures where sparks fly, published papers that subtly (or not so subtly) tear each other's theories apart. To the academic world, they are the embodiment of intellectual rivalry. To those who know them personally, it's more than that. For Harry, Louis represents everything wrong with the academic elite: a privileged man who refuses to use his platform for change. For Louis, Harry is reckless, someone who takes risks he can afford because he doesn't fear rejection the way Louis does. But under all the intellectual posturing, there's always been something more.
