Chapter 0 - Welcome Back!

Raevyn Laughlin notices everything.
The way someone chooses their seat. The pause before a smile. The sound of a pen tapping twice before every note.

Conrad Fisher has spent years making sure no one looks close enough to notice him at all.

In a Stanford lecture hall, their paths cross - no meet-cute, no accident, just a glance that feels like it belongs to another life.

She collects patterns. He avoids them. And somewhere between folded pages, late arrivals, and the quiet space between words... they start to write each other into their story without meaning to.