Volume 1 is on aff 🤧 Posting volume 2 here cause why not 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is a story about the cost of hiding, the ache of watching someone you love walk away, and the quiet hope that one day, love might find its way back - no matter how far it's wandered. Spanning concerts, confessions, empty hotel rooms, and a chance meeting in Lisbon, All The Bright Things I Couldn't Hold is a deeply emotional tale of heartbreak, healing, and the kind of love that never really ends - just waits, patiently, to begin again.

When two souls been holding something back. Bestfriends for a decade... Jennie who keep disappearing but always back.. and Rosie whom always there welcoming her. The others can see how in love they are with each other but neither are brave enough to cross the boundaries.

For over a decade, Jennie Kim and Roseanne Park called it friendship. They shared dorm rooms, late nights, inside jokes, and the kind of closeness everyone noticed but neither of them named. Jennie chose ambition and obedience. Rosie chose patience and silence. They loved each other the only way they thought they were allowed to, in a best friend way. As Jennie's life becomes public property, elections, power, expectations, an engagement she never wanted. Rosie remains the constant she can't afford to lose. Even when love bleeds through the cracks. Even when pretending hurts more than confessing ever could. But some things don't stay buried. Between political pressure, years of restraint, and the fear of ruining everything, Jennie is forced to confront the truth she's been running from: the love she's been calling friendship has always been the real thing.

Roseanne faces the cost of selfish choices, relives a painful second chance, and learns that love isn't a draft to rewrite. Jennie was never the problem, but the home she almost lost. a secomd chance

Jennie Kim has built her life on control-over her company, over her image, her carefully guarded heart. But when everything she knows is shaken, she's forced to protect the only two people who matter most: her son, and the woman who refuses to leave her side. Between boardrooms and courtrooms, shadows from the past and dangers that refuse to stay buried, Jennie discovers that survival instincts just about strength-it's about trust, vulnerability, and love that take root where you least expect it.

In early 19th century Italy, Jennie, an exiled noblewoman from Naples, arrives seeking refuge. She never expects to cross paths with Roseanne, a spirited sculptor whose presence stirs something long buried-setting Jennie on a path she never dared to imagine.

Jennie had every chance not to choose her, but sitting at her desk now, she realizes that she is constantly watching her. How she communicates with colleagues; how she holds a cup of coffee with thin fingers, bringing it to her lips; how she gives smiles to everyone, but never violates the personal boundaries of colleagues, only occasionally shaking hands on duty. And now Jennie swallows when those eyes meet hers-and now she's ready to give anything to feel what it feels like when Rose touches you....

Ruby Kim is Hollywood's ice queen - flawless, untouchable, and famously private. But off-screen, away from flashing cameras and gossip headlines, she's just Jennie - living in a quiet coastal town under her real name, hiding a life no one is meant to see. Rosie Park is pop music's unapologetic chaos - bold, beautiful, and brutally honest with a voice that can set stadiums and scandals on fire. So when she throws shade at Ruby Kim during a late-night interview and Ruby coolly responds with, "Sorry...who?" - the internet explodes. Fandoms clash. Twitter burns. And Hollywood? It seizes the chaos. The two are cast in the same high-profile project - against their will. They hate each other. They have nothing in common. Until the masks crack. Until behind the scenes becomes more dangerous than the spotlight. Because Jennie has secrets. The kind that could ruin everything. And Rosie? She has a heart that bruises easier than she lets on. What begins as rivalry simmers into something they never expected - a slow, sharp, burning kind of love. Messy. Moth-to-flame. Magnetic. And it might just destroy them both... or finally set them free. [comedy-drama-romance / written by me]