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Lottie Matthews and Natalie Scatorccio have been broken up for three years. They’ve also spent those three years playing for rival colleges, turning every Columbia-NYU matchup into ninety minutes of fouls, arguments, and pretending they don’t still know exactly how to get under each other’s skin.
They’re very good at the pretending part. Until one game ends differently. A conversation becomes a text. The text becomes another. Somewhere between watching each other’s games, remembering things they’re supposed to have forgotten, and discovering that hating your ex is considerably easier when you aren’t talking to her every day, the rivalry starts getting complicated.
Then a tournament puts them in the same hotel. There’s jealousy. There’s an ill-advised kiss. There’s an even more ill-advised trip upstairs. And Natalie is pretty sure secretly sleeping with her ex-girlfriend while they’re still actively trying to beat each other on the soccer field is a terrible idea.
Unfortunately, Lottie has always been her favorite terrible idea.