heyitsleise
In a school where names are ranked like trophies and mistakes are posted for all to see, two students are drowning, quietly, separately, and without permission to fail.
Isabelle Grace Reyes juggles her textbooks with extra shifts at a convenience store, her coins often stretched thinner than her patience. Her father is long gone, her mother barely holding it together, and she's learned that asking for help is a luxury she can't afford.
Ethan Dylan Lopez has everything money can buy, well except warmth. In a family where excellence is expected, not celebrated, every high grade feels like a small escape and every low one like a scar. He's top of the class, but at what cost?
They were never meant to cross paths.
They were supposed to be competitors.
But in the silence between lectures, in the weight of unpaid bills and unspoken pressure, they found themselves leaning to each other for support.