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Aragorn is almost fourteen, smart, serious, and used to staying in the background. At home, he keeps the peace between his loud little brother Halbarad and their overworked foster dad. At school, he mostly flies under the radar - until a strange moment on the bus and a quiet look from the class loner, Legolas, starts to shift something.
What begins as tension turns into something else: late-night conversations, inside jokes, forgotten journals, and truths they didn't know how to say out loud. Halbarad barrels through life with confidence and chaos, chasing basketball wins and awkward crushes - especially on Elariel, the mysterious girl who never speaks up unless she has to.
As the school year moves forward, each of them wrestles with things they don't talk about: pressure, identity, grief, fear, friendship, and the ache of not always knowing where you belong - or who you're becoming.
A quiet, character-driven story about three boys, one girl, and the parts of growing up that no one teaches you how to say out loud.
Written with the help of 'Cat I Farted'