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Collision Course

last update Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11.04.2026 13:02:32

Well it happened because she took the wrong staircase.

That's what she told herself after. That it was geography. A wrong turn. The east stairwell instead of the west, because she'd been distracted and her brain was still half-inside the history essay she'd been mentally drafting since third period. Completely accidental. Totally innocent. She would have taken any available staircase and the same thing would not have happened because the same person would not have been there.

Except he was.

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