AltJunkie
Jules When sixteen-year-old Charlie Knight loses his dad, he's forced to leave London and move back in with the mum who hasn't spoken to him in five years. California feels fake, loud, unreal - and so does he. Overnight, he becomes "the British kid," an accent with legs, a joke people film for TikTok.
Then he sees Jules again.
The girl next door.
The girl he used to race bikes with.
The girl he never forgot.
But Jules has a whole new life now - new friends, new confidence, and a boy who already seems to orbit her. Meanwhile, Charlie feels like a ghost in his own story, stuck between grief, anger, and all the words he's too scared to say.
Through late-night journal entries, awkward reunions, and moments that hit harder than he expects, Charlie has to figure out what home is supposed to feel like...
and whether the girl who feels like sunlight still sees him at all.
A story about grief, growing up, and the first love you never really shake.