Leah_finey
𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐎 spent most of her life blending into the background. Quiet footsteps, soft voice, the kind of girl people remembered only when they needed something gentle. But summer changed her in ways she never expected. Not just the glow up everyone whispered about in the hallways, but the shift inside her.
Now, as she walks into her second year of college, eyes follow her for reasons she never asked for. She still feels like the same girl, still shy, still kind, still collecting her courage in small handfuls.
But the world doesn't look at her the same anymore.
And neither does he.
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𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐎𝐍 grew up learning that feelings were weaknesses and people were temporary. The college player, the boy with a jawline sharp enough to cut through excuses, and a smile almost no one had ever seen. Attention meant nothing to him. Girls came and went. Names blurred.
He didn't care about anyone, and that was exactly how he liked it.
Until he noticed her.
The girl he'd walked past for years without a second thought.
The girl he should've ignored like all the rest.
But couldn't.
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They were never supposed to cross paths like this.
A girl who never asked to be seen, and a boy who never let anyone look too closely.
A history shared across childhood, yet a connection neither expected.
College was supposed to be simple. Easy. Predictable.
But sometimes life places the wrong person in your way at exactly the right time.
And once their worlds collide, neither Eliana nor Malachi will be able to go back to who they were before.
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"Get out of my way." His eyes looked cold, sharp, like I just violated his entire bloodline.
"I-I'm sorry." That look did something to me. Something unfamiliar. Something i never used to feel.
"Stop fucking stuttering."