Scarlett Quinn Valdez has always been the type to keep her world in order - class president, top student, the girl everyone depends on. Her life runs on schedules and plans, until a Sunday study session brings her to Ethan De Leon's house... and to his step-sister, Maxine Leigh. Maxine is everything Scarlett isn't - calm, unreadable, effortlessly confident. What starts as a quiet, rain-soaked afternoon becomes something heavier, something that lingers in the spaces between glances and unspoken words. They were never supposed to meet that way. But sometimes, it's the silence - not the confessions - that changes everything. Because love doesn't always begin with what we say. Sometimes, it begins with 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵.

She thought the past was over-until it came knocking.