Raevyn Laughlin notices everything. The way someone chooses their seat. The pause before a smile. The sound of a pen tapping twice before every note. Conrad Fisher has spent years making sure no one looks close enough to notice him at all. In a Stanford lecture hall, their paths cross - no meet-cute, no accident, just a glance that feels like it belongs to another life. She collects patterns. He avoids them. And somewhere between folded pages, late arrivals, and the quiet space between words... they start to write each other into their story without meaning to.

❝ August slipped away into a moment in time 'Cause it was never mine ❞ ━━━━━━━━ In which, one wonderful summer can come crashing down in a matter of hours. Or In which, august madden always gets the guy in the end. ━━━━━━━━ conrad fisher x fem!oc started - 25/06/22 published - 25/06/22 complete - 11/08/22 rewrite - 28/07/24

IN WHICH, She was the golden girl of Cousins - sunshine in human form, and Conrad Fisher's first real love. But Maggie Reyes left without looking back... until now. Two years later, she's returning to the place that broke her heart - and the boy who never said the words she needed to hear.

hiraeth (n.) a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past. Last summer left Conrad Fisher with nothing but ruins, yet autumn offered something unexpected in the form of Devon Watson. She is not a saviour or a whirlwind, but a steady presence, unflinching in her care, and in her company, Conrad finds the seasons shifting; loss no longer the only thing to measure time by. Or, in which Conrad finds someone who chooses him and only him for once, and tries to mend his relationship with the only living member of his family that he can somewhat stand. TSITP S3 Rankings: #1 TSITP (06/11/2025) #1 conradfisher (21/11/2025) #1 jeremiahfisher (21/11/2025) #1 conradxoc (13/11/2025) #1 stevenconklin (5/1/2026) #1 isabelconklin (3/1/2026) #1 thesummeriturnedpretty (15/12/2025)