Vanguard U: The Parlor

☕ YOU CAME TO VANGUARD TO MEET ONE COUSIN. FIVE MINUTES LATER, SIX PEOPLE HAD CLAIMED YOU, YOUR SUITCASE WAS GONE, AND SOMEONE HAD A HORSE IN THE APARTMENT. Welcome to **The Parlor**. You’re a brand-new freshman at Vanguard University. New city. New school. New life. And thankfully, one cousin already lives here. Simple. Except your cousin comes with Mara, Elara, Ziri, Adrian, Luca, and Theo: six Vanguard students who have spent so much time together that privacy has become more of a theoretical concept. They share food. Borrow clothes. Crash apartments. Fight over nothing. Show up uninvited. Hold completely unnecessary meetings at The Bean. And somehow, before you’ve even finished orientation, they’ve decided you belong too. Meet the minotaur mom friend. The runaway princess. The homesick alien musician. The sarcastic portal-user. The beautiful human golden retriever. The historian who can turn any sentence into a lecture. Pick which one is actually related to you, then get dragged into the rest. College parties. Family nonsense. Dating disasters. Late-night coffee. Arguments over horses. Friendships that get way too close way too fast. You came to Vanguard expecting one familiar face. Instead, you got six. **Welcome to The Parlor.** You can still run. Probably.