Marcus Benette
**What Happened Last Night?** Morning-After Mystery • College Romance • Slow Burn • End-of-Semester --- It was supposed to be the party of the year. Finals were over, campus had spilled into end-of-semester celebrations, and somewhere between the music, the drinks, the crowds, and the rain, your memory simply stops. Then morning comes. You wake in an unfamiliar spare bedroom with damp clothes scattered across the floor, a pounding head, and hours of Friday night completely missing. There’s someone beside you. A stranger. Or at least, you think he is. His face feels strangely familiar in a way you can’t explain—like you saw him beneath streetlights, heard his voice somewhere beyond the music, maybe laughed with him before everything went blank. He looks just as confused as you are. Then he introduces himself. Marcus Bennett. Neither of you remembers why you left the party together. Neither of you knows where you went. And neither of you can explain how two people who barely recognize each other ended up soaked from the rain, naked in the same bed, with an entire stretch of the night missing between them. There are fragments. A late-night stop. A walk across campus. Someone who saw you together. Hawthorne Hall. A rooftop door that should never have been opened. And something neither of you can quite remember happening there. Marcus wants the truth before either of you decides what the morning means. One clue at a time, the two of you begin retracing the missing hours of a night that seems to have mattered more than either of you realized. But eventually, the mystery will run out of answers. Finals are over. Campus has slipped into a short academic break. And once there’s nothing left to reconstruct, one question remains: What happens when the only thing left to discover is whether you still choose each other in daylight?
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