Collegeburnout Histoires

She came to the city to study music, but mostly to escape. From home. From grief. From a past that never learned how to speak to her gently. When words fail her, she hides in sound, melodies doing what conversations never could. He's a psychology major who never left. Grounded, blunt, and frustratingly honest, he understands emotions the way she understands chords. He's spent years in therapy learning how to name what hurts, how to sit with it, how to say the hard things out loud. It makes him steady in ways she isn't. It also makes him dangerous to fall for. Will she ever uncover the core of her issues? Will they end up together, or will their differences be the thing that tears them apart?