LOGIN‘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
By dessert, I couldn’t take it anymore, the air felt too tight, the guilt too heavy, so I excused myself early, muttering something about needing rest. When I got back to my room, I paced around because sleep wouldn’t come, not when her silence echoed in my head. I owed her more than a half finis
KYEEven though it was obvious that Raina wasn’t comfortable with me around, she still spoke up and decided that I wasn’t leaving until I was completely healed. And no one argued, not even her husband. If she had had her way, I wouldn’t have stepped foot in school again either, but Liam and our tea
Then my eyes drifted back to Ava and she wasn’t looking at me anymore, she was petting to scroll again, pretending not to listen, but I knew she was. “For a lot of reasons,” I said quietly. “But mostly because I couldn’t let things end the way they were.”Liam frowned. “Meaning?”“Meaning,” I conti







