MasukMy fork slipped from my fingers and the table wavered. “Ava?” He called, his voice sounding distant. “Are you okay?”“I… feel…” my tongue felt thick. “Weird…”A wave of dizziness hit me so hard my vision doubled. I clutched the table, my breath shaky. Across from me, Issac's expression shifted fro
Maybe tonight would be normal too and maybe I could finally breathe again. Issac waited outside his black Honda, leaning casually against the door and he smiled when he saw me. “Hey. You look great.”I forced a smile. “Thanks.”He opened the passenger door, and I slipped in. The leather seats smel
AVAI kept texting Issac just to keep my hands from shaking. My heart wasn’t beating normally, it was stuttering, stopping and starting again in painful thuds. Every step I took down the hallway felt too loud, too heavy and like I was walking on glass as I kept replaying Kye’s confession in my hand
‘Wanna hang out tonight?’ The message read. Before I could think of a response, Kye’s hand shot out and he snatched the phone from my fingers, looked at the message. His jaw tightened and the muscle in his cheek jumped, that dangerous stillness filling him… the one that always came before he snapp
The atmosphere was calm and Kye slipped into a chair across from me, murmuring a polite ‘morning’ to my mom. She returned it warmly although the tension in her eyes betrayed her worry. I didn’t look at him and Liam was the one who broke the silence, as usual. “You two ready? If we don’t leave now,
AVAI kept pretending that I was fine because it was so much easier than admitting how much I wasn’t. Every morning started the same with me smiling too tightly, answering too quickly and moving too fast like I could outrun the unease that had been crawling under my skin for days. It wasn’t just my







