cherriesvoid
Leon Davis and Nancy Lawson have spent their entire lives in Cannon Beach - a place both peaceful and heavy, where everyone knows your name but not your story.
Nancy is beautiful, mysterious, and adored - but no one sees her pain. She hides her anxiety and inner chaos beneath curated outfits, practiced smiles, and clever deflections. Her family is well-known, her life appears perfect, but Leon sees something else: the silent sadness in her eyes, the way her hands shake when no one's looking.
Leon is quiet, thoughtful, observant - the kind of boy who doesn't say much but feels everything. People don't always get him, but Nancy does - or starts to - when they're placed in the same school support group during junior year. From that first meeting, something shifts. Their connection is slow, uncertain, and delicate. They talk between group sessions, share long walks home, and begin to unravel the parts of themselves they never show to anyone else.
But love doesn't always fix broken things.
Nancy's mental health continues to slip under the pressure of family, beauty, and being "enough." Leon, who has spent so long being the quiet observer, now finds himself desperate to hold on to her - but unsure how. As senior year unfolds, college decisions loom, and secrets rise to the surface, they must decide whether love is enough to carry them through the storm.
Their story is not about perfect endings. It's about what happens when two people find light in each other, even if just for a while.