Nobody Told Me Nothing

Patrick Uzi arrived in Nexus City with two suitcases, a scholarship letter, and a laptop. He built a life anyway. On Clement Street, on the Eastside, in a neighbourhood that was not required to receive him but did, Patrick has earned everything he has. A cybersecurity consultancy. A final-year capstone project. A community. And a carefully managed feeling for his research partner, Kimberly Tam, that he has spent two years deciding not to name. Then Dorian Hargrove decides Patrick is a problem. The senator's son does not confront. He constructs. Evidence gets planted. Reputations get poisoned. A suspension lands. And a future Patrick built from nothing begins to collapse under the weight of a lie told by someone who has never had to build anything at all.

Nobody Told Me Nothing is a story about what happens when power targets the wrong person. About loyalty as a daily practice, not a feeling. About a community that shows up when everything is falling. And about two people who have been circling each other across lab tables for two years, waiting for one of them to finally say the true thing.

For anyone who has ever been handed a story about themselves that they did not write. For anyone still building.