Everyone Thinks We Hate

For eight years, genius inventor Soren Mercer and livestream star Kit Calloway have been known across campus—and online—as bitter rivals who can’t stand each other. They compete, argue, roast each other on livestreams, and seem determined to win every encounter. But when Kit accidentally activates Soren’s secret neural system, the two become trapped inside a virtual world built from their shared past. As Kit explores the system, he discovers something impossible: Soren has secretly remembered countless details about him for years. His lost belongings, private moments, anonymous encouragement, and memories Kit himself had forgotten are all preserved inside the system. Even more shocking, Soren has created 107 simulated versions of possible futures, each testing what might happen if he confessed his feelings. But Soren refuses to make any simulated version of Kit love him. He believes that choosing him has to be Kit’s decision—not something technology can manufacture. Now Kit has to confront the truth behind eight years of rivalry. The boy everyone thought hated him has actually loved him since they were thirteen. And as the entire i nternet begins watching their “enemy” act fall apart in real time, Kit realizes he may have been hiding something from himself too.