Awkwardfirstmeet Stories

Elara has spent her whole life feeling like a guest in her own story-quiet, unwanted, and forgettable. When she moves to a new town hoping to start over, she doesn't expect Rowan Hale: the boy who notices everything she tries to hide. Kind where others were careless, patient where others were cold, Rowan becomes the first person to see her not as broken, but as becoming. But this isn't a love story alone-it's the story of Elara learning to choose herself, even when her past tries to pull her back. With Rowan's quiet warmth and her own growing strength, Elara begins to rewrite the life she never believed she deserved.