slightmelodramatic
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𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶...? ོ
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𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝. ོ
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Maeve Beaumont has always known the choreography of perfection. Cheer captain, ballerina, daughter of a woman who mistakes control for love, she has built her world on the quiet art of never slipping. Every smile is measured, steps rehearsed. Her life is a performance designed to earn approval, not ask for it. But when a careless bet made by friends, meant to be harmless and unfeeling turns into something far too real, Maeve finds herself drawn toward the boy everyone else has already decided doesn't matter.
Stanley Uris does not belong in her universe, and he has no desire to. Withdrawn, meticulous, and painfully aware of every way he fails to fit, Stanley has learned that survival means distance. He does not trust affection, especially when it comes wrapped in popularity and bright eyes and attention he never asked for. He knows how these stories go. Girls like Maeve do not choose boys like him, they pass through them, leave marks, and move on.
But attraction does not ask permission, and longing does not care about social borders. As Maeve's carefully balanced world begins to crack under the weight of her own wants, and Stanley's defenses falter in ways he does not know how to control, the line between performance and truth blurs into something tender and irrevocable.
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