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Intro. Noah never loses. Not in public. Not at school. Not in the game. Not in life. He built his reputation like building a glass building: beautiful, imposing and impossible to ignore. His every step through the corridors is calculated. Every smile, every comment, every sharp response. He knows exactly who he is in there — the boy that everyone watches, comments on, calls out to. Popularity is not luck. It's strategy. And Noah masters strategy. But every structure has a weak point. His has a name. Ever since I was little, there has been someone who has never clapped. Never impressed. He never looked at him the way others did. Someone who doesn't compete for the same throne — because they simply don't play the same game. And that irritates. Not because she's popular. She is not. Not because she is the center of attention. She never was. But because she never treated Noah as the center of the world. And for someone who lives in the spotlight, being ignored by a single person can be more disconcerting than catcalls. That night, he

Between Betting and Pride

@Onyx