ImLuna07
Lilly is 25, easy to love in private, easy to miss in a crowded room. She's caught in that quiet panic of adulthood, where time moves faster than her certainty.
She knows what she should want, career, stability, commitment, but none of it feels fully hers. Especially not love.
Eliot, 22, is her opposite. Confident, admired, and sure of his path, he treats life like a sequence, build first, settle later.
Nothing serious until it's time, and he's comfortable with that.
They've always existed in the same orbit, but never quite collided, until their final days at school force them into close proximity through a shared project.
For the first time, Lilly begins to occupy Eliot's thoughts more than she ever has, more than anyone else.
The more he gets to know her, the more she unsettles him, not because she is distant, but because she is far more than he assumed.
Eliot has always believed a happy ending is when a man ends up with a woman who truly wants him, and Lilly believes the same.
So why does she seem afraid of the very thing she claims to believe in?
Will Eliot learn to want her the right way? Will he be patient enough to earn her trust?
And Lilly, what is she really afraid of? Will she let herself be chosen, or walk away before it counts?