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Penulis: Zoë Grace
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-27 00:30:49

☆☆SUMMER’S POV☆☆

If I can’t beat them at their own game, I might as well think like them and become them. Celeste, my dearest roommate. She loved playing games. I hope she wouldn’t mind me joining a little too late.

The memory hit me like a bad rerun—one of those movies you regret watching but can’t stop replaying.

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She had come to find me at my department. I’d just finished a lecture, shoving notes into my bag when I noticed Celeste waiting at the back of the theatre, all smiles and hugs and fake kisses.

She appeared like an angel. Glowing. Impossibly beautiful and unreal. All living beings in that room gawked at her like a star so far out of reach.

I was glad she came for me. Infact, I was kinda proud. Summer Peterson was friends and roommates with someone as Celeste Ever-Morne. Never in my wildest dreams would I have believed that. So, I followed her.

It wasn’t the first time she’d dragged me into a bathroom. But the café that afternoon stuck to my mind. Sticky. Ugly
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  • Dear best friend's brother, kiss me while you can   139.

    ◇◇CELESTE'S POV◇◇I crept downstairs toward the landing. Peeked over the banister. Completely out of sight. My mother was standing in the foyer like she owned the place, chin high, lipstick perfect. She doesn’t belong here. Stacy’s absence left the air crackling, but my mother filled it like it was just another job opening.“Lower your voice,” my dad said through clenched teeth.Mom didn’t lower anything.“Where’s my daughter?”“She’s upstairs. She didn’t know I called you here.”My mom sighed. Then she spoke with a much calmer voice. “Richard, you know she’s wasting her time in that ridiculous university. Celeste was made for the runway. Magazine covers. She’s ethereal. She has agencies waiting. Why should she rot in classrooms when she could be earning?”“She doesn’t want that life anymore.”“Since when does what she wants matter?” Mom asked.“It matters to me,” said Dad.“If it did, you wouldn’t be here. You abandoned her when she needed you the most. So don’t act like you care ab

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