Boyfellharder Stories

Okay so picture this. Sophia is the girl who has paint permanently stained on her fingers, loses her earphones at least twice a week, and remembers everyone's birthday but somehow always forgets her own locker combination. She's not invisible exactly - she just exists in a different universe than someone like Lucas Hartwell's golden boy, star athlete, the kind of quiet cool that makes people lean in when he finally decides to speak. They were never supposed to be in each other's stories. But that's the thing about mutual friends, shared lunch tables, and a school that somehow keeps throwing two people into the same room - the universe has terrible boundaries. What starts as awkward hellos slowly becomes inside jokes. Inside jokes become late night texts. Late night texts become the kind of friendship that sneaks up on you and then absolutely wrecks you. Sophia figures out her feelings approximately one season too early and spends a genuinely embarrassing amount of time pretending she hasn't. Lucas figures out his feelings later - slower, quieter, deeper - and then feels them so completely it rewrites everything he thought he knew about himself. Throw in two families with opinions, a friend group that sees everything before they do, college decisions looming like storm clouds, and approximately one million almost-moments - and you get three years of the most beautiful, frustrating, warm, chaotic slow burn you'll ever read. This is The Long Way to You. And trust me - every step is worth it. 🎨🏅✨

"It's her Lore, I don't know how I knew, I just did." ---------------- It's the beginning of Wesley Benton's senior year at Watermount High and his twin sister, Lorelai, introduces him to Elliana Dowen, a new junior and her new best friend. Little does he know, this was going to be a long chapter in his life; filled with acceptance, love, amazement, and challenge.