This is serendipity, in which a boy and a girl are not written in the stars, but rather written in their scars. [previously titled Scar-Crossed] [re-posting]

ｉｌｌｕｓｏｒｙ [ih-loo-suh-ree] based on illusion; not real

Raina Swift is still trying to pick up the broken pieces of her life, two years after escaping the confines of her home. Finding therapy in her simple life of waitressing during the day and wandering the city during the night, she knows there's no room for happiness, let alone anything more. But that's okay, because she's finally at peace, and that's all she could have ever asked for. But Raina's quiet, tranquil almost-life is suddenly upturned when Seth Hastings shows up one day at the diner while she's working. She sees some of herself in Seth, and she knows that he has been through just as much as she. So all Raina wants to do is to never see him again, because she's desperate to leave her past exactly there-in the past. Seth's not willing to let Raina slip through his fingers, though. He understands all too well how difficult it can be to move on, and he knows that Raina will never be able to move on until she faces her demons head-on, instead of running away from them as she has been doing for the past two years. But there's more to their story than a serendipitous encounter in a run-down diner. [Camp NaNoWriMo July 2020]

These are epistles, in which I collect the letters from. [a collection of short stories told in triads of letters]