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Gippeum Choi
Gippeum Choi
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Play it Straight

Play it Straight

“Rule #1: Don’t fall for the roommate. Rule #2: Seriously, don’t fall for the roommate.” *** After an incident that shattered her confidence, Phoenix wants nothing more than to disappear. So, when her twin brother makes her a crazy, bizarre but deliciously sinful offer, she slips on a uniform and takes her place as his twin ‘brother’ at Harrison Park Academy — a chance to restart and feel in control, just until she feels okay again. But HPA has its own rules—and none of them account for bathroom phobias, shared dorms, or accidentally locking eyes with your ridiculously attractive new roommate. Justice is intense, loyal, and way too perceptive for her comfort. Worst of all? He’s the one person she can’t seem to avoid… or stop thinking about. He’s just irritating enough to make her blood boil. But he’s also kind in the quietest ways, and she’s falling, fast. Now Phoenix is navigating locker room close calls, midnight showers, secret crushes, late-night parties with their sister all-girls’ school across the lake and an escalating rivalry between the athletes and the academic elite. Her lies are stacking higher than her jump shots, and with each game, the stakes get heavier. Everyone thinks she’s just another boy chasing a spot on the team. But she’s playing for more than victory. She’s playing to feel like herself again. She’s playing to forget what happened last year. And if anyone finds out who she really is, it won’t just be her cover that’s blown— it’ll be her entire world. Phoenix is one step away from getting exposed. And when you’re living a lie? One wrong move is all it takes to lose the game. How long can she keep playing it straight?
Baca
Chapter: JACKSON LIED! THEY DO PANTS KIDS AT HPA
PHOENIX’S POVOn the first day of class, everyone seemed to love me, even the so-called academics who claimed that people in the sports community and those associated with them should be treated with disdain. We – as in the artsy guys – had our first lesson with the guys from the top floor – the academics AKA The Caffeine Council like the sports guys liked to call them – and they even let me sit in their midst which was actually a big deal! I met this cute guy named Roger who only spoke in quadratic equations. At least that’s what it sounded like when I asked what he was having for lunch and if he wanted to eat with me.They may have been divided by their main area of study, but they were all united in their declaration that I looked like Jackson, but a lot more like Felix from Stray Kids which was a little weird because Jackson looked nothing like Felix and we both had almost the same face.Sweet, beautiful Miles was still a little upset about my wanting to leave, but he was determin
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-23
Chapter: MY GREEK-GOD ROOMMATE AND HIS SUPER HOT FRIENDS
PHOENIX’S POVI was slowly but surely losing my mind!Francis had already gone and my brother was lying half-dead in a hospital bed, so it was safe to say that I was on my own. In an all-boys’ academy. About to share a room with another boy whom I didn’t know. Great!Before he left me alone, I had begged Justice to let me stay in Jackson’s old room but he vehemently refused, stating that it was against the rules to let non-athletes stay in The Arena and “the dorm wouldn’t open for you because your voice is already registered as a non-athlete in the system.”I asked if I could try out for the basketball team and he said, “Sure. That’d be great. Jackson always talked about how great you…er…Phee was. I’m sure you’ll be just as good. Tryouts are next week.”Next week!I had to spend an entire week in a dorm room with a bathroom that I might be sharing with three other guys because I was certain I was not going to win ‘best artist in the wing’ in order to get that single room. My brother,
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-22
Chapter: I GET TO SHARE A BATHROOM WITH THREE OTHER GUYS
PHOENIX’S POVI held my breath and waited for him to expose me.“Phoenix Jameson?” the voice called again. I realized then that the person in front of me wasn’t the one who had called me. His mouth hadn’t moved the whole time he was ogling me.Looking over his shoulder, I saw a middle-aged man with slightly graying hair smiling at me, his right hand being waved back and forth as he tried to get my attention. I looked at the guy in front of me and I saw that he had relaxed a bit, as if he finally understood something that was very confusing before.“You’re Jackson’s brother.” It was more of a statement than a question even though I could tell he still wasn’t so sure about me being Jackson’s ‘brother.’ His voice was even better than it was over the phone and I wondered if I spoke to him, he’d recognize me immediately.“I am so happy to see you here,” the older man said. He grabbed my hand and shook it firmly and I did my very best to not wince at how firm the handshake was.“I’m Prof. M
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-17
Chapter: COVER BLOWN ALREADY?
PHOENIX’S POVWhat’s the worst that can happen, I asked? Well, I’ll tell you what the worst that can happen is: my brother not answering his phone for two days straight like he was supposed to and today, which is the day that we are to go back to school, he’s unavailable!My heart was pounding rapidly against my ribcage as I dialed his number for the fiftieth time that day and again, I was answered by an automated voice telling me he was unavailable and to leave a message.I ran my fingers through my now shorter-than-usual hair and willed myself to not bite my lips or my nails. I had tasted blood earlier when I did that and my bottom lip was still swollen from it.“Francis! Francis!” I called out frantically when I saw him pass the living room. He stopped and looked at me, his face breaking out into a lazy smile.“Have you spoken to Jackson today?”“Look at you! The uniform suits you. You look just like Jackson now.”“Focus, Francis!” God, I wanted to smack him. “Have you spoken to hi
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-10
Chapter: I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS ALL SUMMER
PHOENIX’S POVIt’s official. My twin brother was crazy! All that time our mother said he needed therapy and we ignored her! If she was here today, I’d have apologized for yelling at her whenever she suggested that.I blinked back at Jackson who was staring at me as well, waiting for me to respond. How could I calmly let him know that he was crazier than a person who was locked up?“Jackson, I don’t think you understand what you said to me so I’m going to say this again; you go to an all-boy’s academy! I can’t go there cause I am female.” I said it slowly like you would when talking to a child. His smile did not for once fade away.“I know that. You’ll come with me. It’ll be fun.”“I can’t go to an all-boys’ school.”For some very weird and disturbing reason, he found my rejection offensive. That was the first time I was seeing him frown in a long time.“Why are you so negative, Phee? What’s all this ‘I can’t’ nonsense? Sure you can! Remember in tenth grade when you said you couldn’t j
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-10
Chapter: A SINFULLY BRILLIANT IDEA
PHOENIX’S POV“You’ve been in that same position all summer. I am sick and tired of you looking like a fetus.”Before I could open my mouth to shoo him away, I felt a sharp pain course through my back as a basketball landed smack on it.“Jackson!” I yelled and shot up from my bed like a rocket. I was glaring daggers at him, but he was grinning like a Cheshire Cat.“Come play with me.” He pointed at the ball on my bed and signaled to me to bring it over to him.“Jackson, I am not in the mood to play ball. Please get out of my room.”My voice was low and without its usual perkiness to it. Jakson cocked his head to the side and entered my room. He sat on my bed and peered at me through the hood I had drawn up to cover my face.“I don’t like seeing you like this.” His voice was sad and melancholic and I could see the worry in his cerulean blue eyes. This was the first time we were this close to each other since the beginning of the summer holiday.“I don’t feel like being any other way.”
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-10
The Clay Connection

The Clay Connection

“…I’m the only one who gets to treat you like that, Pearce. You are mine, and I do not take too kindly to those who want to share in what’s mine…” ****************************************************************** Anthony Pearce and Blake Lindell have been locked in a feud for as long as they can remember. The spark that ignited their rivalry? Well, that depends on which side of the clay you ask. You’d think their parents’ constant meddling or the time they spend together on the basketball court would help smooth things over, but nope—this relationship remains stubbornly unshaped. Everything changes, though, when Blake is forced to ditch the court and take up pottery—Anthony’s territory, where he’s the undisputed “King of Clay.” Now, tasked with the mission of getting Blake up to speed before graduation, Anthony has to spend even more time in close quarters with his rival. Will they be able to sculpt their fractured friendship back into a masterpiece, or is their bond too cracked and brittle to repair? And when a buried secret surfaces about the rumor that shattered Anthony’s ninth-grade year, will it soften their hardened hearts or leave them shattered beyond the kiln’s fix? One thing’s for sure—things are about to get messy.
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY
ANTHONY’S POVFamily meetings. Or, in this case, families meeting.Blake’s parents had insisted that we all got together to celebrate his getting into Duke and also to try and patch things up. We all knew he was going to get in, what with the fact that he was scouted by them and his parents were alumni, but I guess the main reason they wanted to get us all together was to make up.It was very awkward and uncomfortable to be sitting across my parents and sister on one of the big round tables in the VIP lounge of Sterling Hotel where Blake and Stella caught me spying on him. My palms were sweaty and my heart was thumping maniacally. Blake seemed to be at ease as he sat beside me, but I couldn’t really tell what he was thinking. Unlike me, he had perfected the art of keeping his emotions away from the surface unless he wanted you to see it, and right now, despite the tension and awkwardness in the room, he looked unbothered and unperturbed by it.“Thank you guys so much for honoring our
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-19
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
BLAKE’S POV“Care explaining what coach Gremicks said to me in school today?”My mother looked at anything but me, sensing that I was pissed at her. My father sat over at the table, munching away at an apple.“What? I just thought you’d like to be back on the team,” she said defensively.My mom had no idea, but she had put me in the tightest spot ever. My mind has been in chaos ever since I left school to come over to her hotel room. Coupled with the fact that the whole team may turn against my boyfriend now that I was back, there was also this little issue about my college application that I was hoping I’d put on hold till after graduation. Now that I was playing again, there was no way I could avoid that topic especially when scouts were coming in to watch the game.“I was kicked off the team, not put on probation. You can’t just do things the way you want to do them. I didn’t want to be kicked off the team, but you had that happen and I was put in pottery class. I like it there and
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-13
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
ANTHONY’S POVAs soon as we – Blake, Claire, Dante and I – stepped inside school the next day, I could tell that there was a dynamic shift in the way things used to be. Dante, Luke and Blake walked like they didn’t care about the stares that people were giving them. Claire was texting furiously on her phone, completely unaware of the environment she just walked into. I seemed to be the only one who was anxious and worried about the kind of backlash Blake and his crew were sure to get for humiliating the guys on the team by not showing up to their party.It was all over the students’ forum, how Blake ditched the party in favor of the arcade. I had no idea who took the picture, but there was a colored photograph of all of us in Playmates, the arcade close to the amusement park that Claire liked to go to. Their gazes said it all; Blake Lindell has forsaken the basketball team.“Frustrating piece of shit!” Claire’s rage filled but tiny outburst distracted me from the faces of the students
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-09
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
BLAKE’S POV“Were you aware that your teammates were having a party after school today?”Anthony was pretending to be focused on whatever he was doing with the clay in the Clay Room and was not looking at me. I would have attributed that to the fact that I was too handsome to look at and if he did people were going to see the love in his eyes, but the fact that it was just us two in there made me cross that off my list of reasons why my boyfriend had been ignoring me since I came to drag him to the cafeteria.“No, I wasn’t.” His response was short and curt. Even when we were not talking to each other, he never responded to me like that. I must have done something to piss him off. He once told me I had the tendency to piss people off without even meaning to.My mouth opened to call him ‘sweetie’ but I stopped halfway through when I remembered he said I shouldn’t call him that in school. To be honest, that stung a little, and also when he didn’t let me kiss him in the parking lot earlie
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-04
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
ANTHONY’S POVIt felt like the first day of first grade all over again, except this time, my parents weren’t trying to pry my fingers off the hinges of my father’s car door after dropping me off.I was wearing Blake’s (new so no one would know that I spent the night with him) clothes and one of the new pairs of sneakers he got me for Christmas. My stomach was doing jumping jacks like a professional and I wanted to throw up every single drop of water I had chugged down this morning at Blake’s insistence. Since my parents were STILL not worried about me and hadn’t bothered to enquire about my whereabouts, I had crashed over at the hotel Blake’s father set us both up in the moment we got back from Boston. The only downside to having to sleep on the same bed with my boyfriend was the fact that his father dropped in on us every five minutes to ensure we were keeping it PG 13 even though he masked it up by saying he just needed help figuring out how to maneuver the new website for our count
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-02
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
BLAKE’S POVAnthony was acting weird. Don’t get me wrong, the kid was weird on a regular, but he was acting weirder than usual. He didn’t eat a single thing after the topic of that kid from conversion camp was brought up and I noticed how tensed he got when my grandfather said he didn’t think being gay was natural. I think that scared him a bit, but I couldn’t be certain if that was the main reason he was throwing up in the upstairs bathroom immediately after desert was served when he didn’t even eat anything.“Sweetie? Are you alright in there?” He had locked the bathroom door the moment he got in, hindering me from following him inside. I was forced to wait outside while I listened to him hurl out his insides in the toilet bowl.There was no response, but a few moments later, he unlocked the door and opened it for me. His face was damp and he smelled like toothpaste.“Are you okay?” I asked as he walked over to the bathtub. It was filled with water and my grandma’s bath soap that sm
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-22
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