How the Tables Turn
Summary: When The Tables Turn
Amelia Hart has always believed she knew who she was — grounded, careful, loved. She's been with Colton for years, a relationship that started young and bloomed into the kind of comfort most people envy. But comfort can be deceiving.
When Amelia leaves high school behind and follows her friends to a campus college in town, everything familiar starts to shift — especially when it comes to Micah Rivera.
Micah was always part of the group, quiet but magnetic in a way that drew people without trying. He'd admired Amelia from afar, since she first stepped foot at Northridge high — harmlessly, quietly, always just on the edge of being noticed. But the harmlessness fades when his attention begins to linger too long, his compliments too pointed, his gaze too knowing.
And then one day, he stops.
The sudden absence sends Amelia spiraling, confused if the attention Micah ever gave her was real or was it an illusion in Amelia's head.
"When The Tables Turn" is a psychological slow-burn romance that unravels the dangers of desire, the hunger for attention, and the haunting truth of what happens when being seen becomes an addiction.
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Chapter: Chapter One — The New GirlThe first day at Northridge High smelled like floor wax, perfume, and nerves. Amelia had never been more aware of her own footsteps. Every corner seemed to echo her uncertainty — a new girl in a town where everyone had grown up together, shared memories she wasn’t a part of, and whispered names she didn’t know yet.Her mom’s words from that morning followed her through the crowded halls: “Just be yourself, Babes. You’ll find your people.”But so far, the only thing she’d found was a broken locker handle and a classroom she was five minutes late to.When she slipped into her seat in English, the teacher barely looked up. But someone else did — a boy in the third row, leaning back in his chair with a pencil balanced on his lip. His eyes leaned toward her, not in the obvious, teasing way boys sometimes looked, but like he was quietly curious. Like he’d already noticed something.Micah.She didn’t know his name then. She just knew the sharp way his gaze held hers for a heartbeat too long
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Chapter: Chapter Two — Gravity Doesn’t Ask PermissionColton always got what he wanted.That was the unspoken rule at Northridge High.Star athlete, student council favorite, smile sharp enough to make teachers go soft. He was the kind of boy people expected Amelia to fall for — clean, polished, predictable.And, in a way, she did.It started innocently. Study sessions. Walks home. Inside jokes that made her laugh until her stomach hurt. Colton was easy to like — and easy to be liked by.He noticed her first, officially. Asked her questions no one else had. Offered her his hoodie the first time she shivered in the library.But what Amelia didn’t know was that Micah had already offered it once.Silently.From across the room.In a look he never let her see.Micah watched it all happen like a film he couldn’t pause. Every time she smiled at Colton, something inside him knotted tighter. He wasn’t angry — not really. Just… hollow.He told himself it was fine. That she deserved someone like Colton. Someone who didn’t live in the quiet edges o
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Chapter: Chapter Three — The Subtle ThingsIt started subtly — the kind of change you almost don’t notice until it’s already there.By the end of Senior year, Amelia and Colton had their rhythm down to a science. They didn’t fight, didn’t argue, didn’t really have reason to.Everything still worked. It was just… quieter.The conversations that once stretched for hours between classes now lasted a few minutes before tapering off into silence.When they texted, she’d find herself staring at his replies — short, polite, but missing that spark that used to make her grin at her screen.She told herself it was normal. People got comfortable. They didn’t need to fill every silence.But sometimes, when he’d walk her to class and his hand slipped into hers, it felt like muscle memory instead of meaning.One weekend, they met up at a local diner after practice.Colton was tired — distracted, scrolling through his phone between bites of fries. Amelia smiled and tried to keep the conversation light, telling him about Ellis latest attempt
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