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Chapter 11: The Space Between Truth and Fear

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Ryan wasn’t used to being happy.

He’d gotten used to the buzz of anxiety, the tension of walking on eggshells. Happiness felt… foreign. Almost suspicious. Like it came with strings he couldn’t see.

But that morning, waking up with Daniel’s text still glowing on his phone and the ache in his chest gone he almost believed it could last.

Classes were back in full swing.

Midterms looming.

Stress building in every hallway and study nook.

But Ryan’s mind was elsewhere.

Specifically: on the “I love you.”

It didn’t feel too soon.

It felt… inevitable.

The kind of truth that had always been quietly building in the background. Like gravity.

At lunch, he and Daniel sat on the grass near the back of the media building a quiet place with a view of the campus fountain.

Daniel was sketching in a small pad, lines flowing like muscle memory.

“What are you drawing?”

“You.”

Ryan blinked. “Seriously?”

“Well. A version of you,” Daniel said, half-smiling. “The one who’s free.”

Ryan looked down at the rough
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