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Bethany and Atticus had never said it out loud. Not the glances, not the soft smiles, not the way their hearts somehow always found each other.
One rainy afternoon, under the library awning, he handed her a folded piece of paper. "You don't have to read it now," he said.
Her heart raced. Did he mean it? Or was it just another almost-word, another pause that never became a confession?
She looked up at him, rain dripping from his hair, eyes unreadable.
"I won't," she whispered.
He nodded slowly, but something in his gaze trembled.
Some loves wait patiently. Some loves stay quiet. But will theirs ever speak?
The Quiet Way We Loved-a slow-burn high school romance about unspoken feelings, quiet moments, and the tension of hearts that might finally collide... or drift apart forever.