julyd09
1997.
In a quiet neighbourhood where nothing ever changes, the Sullivan family arrives with noise, laughter-and a boy who talks too much.
Across the street lives Rose Callahan.
Seventeen. Homeschooled. Brilliant. Silent.
She doesn't speak-not because she has nothing to say, but because the world has never waited long enough to listen.
Her life is made of routines, notebooks, and a white cat named Snowdrop.
She likes quiet.
She prefers being unseen.
Until Evan Sullivan climbs a tree to save her cat-and somehow, without trying, steps into her carefully guarded world.
Evan is everything Rose avoids.
Loud. Annoying. Charming.
A bad-boy heartthrob with paint-stained fingers and dreams his father doesn't believe in.
She falls first.
In glances. In gestures. In moments she never dares to name.
He falls later.
And when he does, he falls harder-learning that silence can speak, and love doesn't always need words.
Set in the warmth of the 90s-handwritten notes, open windows, cassette tapes, and unspoken feelings-The Language Between Us is a soft, slow-burn high school romance about listening, healing, and finding someone who understands you without asking you to change.
Sometimes, love isn't spoken.
It's felt.