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For twelve-year-old Luna, school is a straight line: keep your head down, secure the perfect grades her parents demand, and hide inside her sketchbooks. She is a quiet introvert with a sharp boyish haircut and a deep, husky, smoky voice that keeps the world at a distance.
Coralie lives in a completely different dimension. Petite, popular, and filled with a bright, sunlit energy, she is the undisputed center of the classroom. But a turbulent first love leaves Coralie heartbroken-a hollow shadow of the girl she used to be.
They were two silent islands in a crowded room, strangers by every measurable distance. Until a broken watch strap, a shared midnight playlist, and a sudden twist of fate force their parallel lines to cross.
Spanning a full decade from the innocent, strict classrooms of young girls to adult young women , STAY is a grounded, atmospheric, and deeply emotional slow-burn GL romance. It is a story about growing up, finding your own rhythm, and discovering that sometimes, the person who changes your entire trajectory was sitting just a desk row away.
"We had absolutely no reason to truly look at each other. But the universe refused to leave us alone."