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Althea is known for her light-always smiling, always kind, the girl who carries everyone else's burdens without ever letting hers show. To others, she's the comfort. The safe place.
But no one ever really asks who hers is.
Until Nick.
He isn't warm. He isn't expressive. He barely speaks, and most days, it feels like he exists in a world separate from everyone else. A quiet, unreadable presence that people don't bother trying to understand.
And yet... when Althea is near him, something shifts.
The noise in her head softens. The weight she carries-expectations, worries, the things she hides behind her smile-fades into the background. She doesn't have to pretend, doesn't have to be the "strong one." Just sitting beside him, in silence, feels enough.
Nick doesn't try to fix her
.
He doesn't ask questions.
He just stays.
And somehow, that's what makes him her comfort.
In a world where Althea is everything for everyone else,
Nick becomes the one place where she can finally just