⚠️ Content Notice:
This story explores emotional themes such as grief, trauma, and mental health. While not graphic, it does include emotionally intense scenes and psychological healing.
Please read with care, especially if you are in a vulnerable emotional state.
📝 Author's Note:
You Had Me at Hello is a slow-burn romance about two very different people who help each other heal in ways neither expected.
If you're drawn to realistic, introspective characters and relationships built on trust, growth, and vulnerability — welcome.
Thank you for reading.
– ZAGIOUS MOONE
💭 Introduction
"Be better than me… Be better than this world."
Those were the last words Rick Fyer ever heard from his mother.
At seventeen, Rick lost the only person who believed in his potential. He didn't cry. He didn't collapse. He just promised her one thing:
To live — not survive.
Three years later, he's still trying.
Now twenty and emotionally closed off, Rick avoids love, avoids attention, and avoids anything that makes life messy. That is, until one poetry-loving girl with too much energy for a Monday demands her seat back — and shatters his routine with a smile.
Some sparks don't explode. They simmer.
And for Rick Fyer, that spark may be everything he didn't know he needed.