CUCKING YOUR BULLY

After two uncomfortable weeks working on a college project with Brooke—the girlfriend of the guy who has bullied him for years—a quiet afternoon at her empty house unexpectedly becomes personal. With Brooke’s boyfriend away on vacation, frustration she’s been hiding finally surfaces. She admits she knows how badly her boyfriend has treated her project partner, while revealing cracks in her own relationship that she normally keeps private. What begins as uncomfortable questions about the bullying gradually shifts into dangerous flirtation, with years of resentment colliding with an attraction neither of them wants to acknowledge. Eventually, Brooke crosses the line she knows she shouldn’t, turning an ordinary study session into an intimate betrayal. The tension peaks when her boyfriend unexpectedly calls in the middle of their encounter, completely unaware that the person he’s spent years humiliating is sitting beside his girlfriend. When the call ends, the reality of what they’ve done finally settles over the quiet room. For him, it began as revenge. For Brooke, it began as anger. But as she reaches for his hand instead of asking him to leave, both realize they’ve created something far more complicated than either intended.