❝You don't have to hide with me, Angel. I want to see you. Always have and always will.❞ ₊✩‧₊˚౨ৎ˚₊✩‧₊ Willow Hart is barely holding herself together, drowning at home and in her thoughts. In the silence no one was supposed to notice. Tristan Hayes is the schools golden boy and everything she shouldn't want: confident, untouchable, and unmistakably himself. One night, she collapses on the beach, only to be found by the star football player. Two strangers in a quiet moment turns into something deeper. Built on late-night conversations and unspoken understanding, their bond feels strong. Unbreakable. But no secrets stay hidden forever, and lies are no longer a source of safety. When everything comes crashing down, is love enough to keep them together? Or will it be what breaks them? Read to find out! ₊✩‧₊˚౨ৎ˚₊✩‧₊ WATTPAD NOVEL ₊✩‧₊˚౨ৎ˚₊✩‧₊ {ONGOING} This story contains mature themes (language, scenes, etc.)

In which the rain-soaked streets of Grantham hold two people who learned too young how to disappear inside themselves. 𝐍𝐨𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 moves through the world as light itself-bright, effortless, the kind of girl who makes every room feel warmer. But the brightness is a careful performance, built to keep the darker things from being seen.𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬 wears the opposite armour: silence, distance, a cold exterior that keeps everyone at arm's length. He carries a weight no one else is allowed to share. They once belonged to the same ordinary childhood world, close enough that the distance which later grew between them felt almost unnatural. When their paths cross again at Caldwell Preparatory School, something quiet and stubborn refuses to stay buried. He is the only one who looks past the smile she offers everyone else. She is the only one who reaches past the walls he has spent years reinforcing. What begins between them is not soft or simple. It is two people recognising the same kind of damage in each other-the kind that never asks to be named, only endured. In a place where appearances are currency and silence is safer than truth, they are left with the same impossible question: how do you stay when staying means being truly seen? Some love stories are not about being fixed. They are about finding the one person willing to stand in the rain with you.

In Ravenhill, silence is never empty - it is full of things no one knows how to say. Pearl Lowell has spent years learning how to exist in the aftermath of what shaped her too early. Once a child full of light, she has become a name spoken carefully, a story rewritten by people who were never there to understand it. Rhys Morgan has always believed in order, in control, in the certainty of things that can be measured and achieved. But some people do not fit into certainty. Some connections refuse to fade, even when everything else does. They were once part of the same world - close enough to believe it would stay that way. But growing up in Ravenhill means learning that distance can happen quietly, and that not everything lost is ever truly gone. When their paths cross again, nothing returns as it was. Only fragments remain - of memory, of misunderstanding, of everything left unsaid between them. And in a place where perception travels faster than truth, they are left with one question that neither of them is ready to answer: how do you understand someone you were never truly allowed to know? Some stories are not about what happened but about what was never said.

Mae Rivers was sent to Brackenridge Academy to start over. To be quiet. To behave. To forget. But in a place where appearances matter more than truth, silence doesn't protect you. Especially not from someone like Ash Carter. He's everything she should stay away from - reckless, charming, and far too observant. He sees her when no one else does. And that might be the most dangerous thing of all. Because some stories aren't meant to be told. And some truths were never meant to stay buried.