Lilah's songs have always been hers alone-scribbled in notebooks, hummed in the shower, strummed quietly in her room. But when a chance open-mic at the Lark & Lauren café brings her together with two girls and a two boys she's never met, the music becomes more than an escape. Between laughter, late-night conversations, and messy high school days, they form a friendship that feels like it was waiting for them all along.

Lucy Summers wasn't planning on falling for him again. Not after Beau Smith told her he "used to like her, but not anymore." Not after months of pretending they barely knew each other. But then winter comes. And a dance showcase. And late-night texts that last longer than they should. Beau swears he's over her. Lucy swears she doesn't care. Neither of them are telling the truth. Between school hallways, half-frozen sidewalks, Christmas break, and conversations they're both too scared to finish, Lucy and Beau keep drifting back to each other-slowly, quietly, like it's something they can't stop. It's a story of almosts. Of the things they didn't say. Of feelings that never really went away. Because sometimes "not anymore" is just another way of saying "I still do." Told in dual POV with achingly slow-burn tension, More Than He Said is a tender high school romance about second chances, communication, and choosing to be brave-even when your voice shakes.