𝑰𝑵 𝑾𝑯𝑰𝑪𝑯, 𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐬 has been secretly in love with her childhood best friend 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨 all along. Once the beginning of their second/third year of college starts, Chris soon introduces his new girlfriend he's been secretly with. But what he didn't expect is for her to be the cause of many things and he's been defending her this whole time. 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝑥 𝐹𝑒𝑚 𝑂𝑐 𝖲𝗍𝖺𝗋𝗍𝖾𝖽：𝖣𝖾𝖼𝖾𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋 𝟣𝟨𝗍𝗁，𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟦 𝖯𝗎𝖻𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗁𝖾𝖽：𝖩𝖺𝗇𝗎𝖺𝗋𝗒 𝟨𝗍𝗁，𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧 𝖢𝗈𝗆𝗉𝗅𝖾𝗍𝖾𝖽： 𝖩𝗎𝗇𝖾 𝟤𝟪𝗍𝗁， 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟨

── ❛ can you feel my heartbeat? when you hit it full speed anywhere you take me i'll go ❜ ⋆˚࿔ ⌗ matthew sturniolo x fem!oc ❪ ongoing. . . ❫ ⋆˚࿔ stand alone. social media x irl au - ──────────────────── 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 ╱ corinne's been forced against her will to pack up and move from oregon to boston. she's a quiet introvert who just wants to finish senior year without any complications, until she makes a mistake that ruins everything. ── .✦ ❝ let me just say this, i'm not here to kiss you again, matt. ❞ ❝ i wouldn't complain if you were. ❞

Willow doesn't do emotions, not the messy kind, at least. She'd rather keep her walls up and her comebacks sharp. But when she gets pulled into the orbit of Matt Sturniolo, the quiet one with too many thoughts behind those calm eyes, she finds herself unraveling in ways she never planned for. Their connection is subtle, buried beneath awkward silences, late night car rides, and petty arguments that mean more than they should. But Willow's past isn't done with her yet, and Matt's got his own way of disappearing when things get too real. As tension builds and feelings slip through the cracks, they both have to ask: were they always just almost something... or are they too scared to become everything?