Olivia has spent years orbiting the same impossible truth: she's in love with her brother's best friend. Calum. From the very beginning, there's been something between them-lingering looks, almost moments, words left unsaid. But just as that quiet tension starts turning into something real, everything falls apart. The summer before his band's first solo tour is supposed to be the start of something. Instead, it becomes the end. Because Calum is terrified of what he feels-and before he leaves, he pushes her away like she never meant anything at all. It shatters her. But Olivia doesn't fall apart quietly. She writes. She turns every unsaid word, every almost, every heartbreak into a song-and when she releases it, the world listens. Overnight, she becomes the voice everyone is talking about. The girl who turned heartbreak into something unforgettable. The new hit star. And just like that, everything changes. Months later, when the band returns from tour, Calum isn't the same boy she once knew. The quiet, guarded softness is gone-replaced by reckless nights, bad habits, and a version of him that feels like a stranger. Parties, alcohol, girls-anything to drown out what he refuses to face. But some things don't disappear that easily. Not history. Not feelings. Not the kind of connection that never really had a chance to begin. Now they're back in the same world again. And the question isn't just whether they still feel something. It's whether they ever really stopped. -or if some stories are too messy, too broken, and too late to fix.

the story of how a simple mix up at the airport brought two strangers together.

"do i seriously have to walk to the mailbox shirtless every morning just to get your attention?" {lophie} {warning; slight smut, sexual content, you get it} ©loudluke