Chapter 1: The Distance Between Us
The school felt colder without Kael's
presence, even when he was only a few feet
away. Elira had mastered the art of
pretending. She laughed when she had to,
nodded when called, but inside, her world had paused at the last memory they shared. Kael, on the other hand, walked like a ghost-
always present, never felt. He wanted to
speak. To fix what wasn't broken, just
forgotten. But how do you restart something that was never official? That only existed in glances, in shared silence, in a story no one else knew?
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