Tillidie Stories

**sequel to Till I Die (Chris and Crawford Collins)** please read that first! It's been a year since Chris left, and Katy and Crawford got together. But when they run into Chris again what will happen? Will feelings return or will everything work out as planned?

read ; 𝕬𝖓𝖌 𝖍𝖚𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖒𝖌𝖆 𝖙𝖚𝖑𝖆 𝖓𝖎 𝕵𝖆𝖔𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓 𝕽𝖔𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖚𝖊𝖟

Some people are born with voices loud enough to command a room. Others are born with thoughts too heavy for words. Eunji belongs to the latter. Misunderstood since childhood, she has become an expert at disappearing in plain sight. Behind the silence everyone mistakes for weakness is a mind that never stops questioning, observing, and understanding the world more deeply than anyone ever cared to notice. They call her strange, aloof, difficult, but no one has ever stayed long enough to hear the conversations she has only with herself. Because for Eunji, speaking has never been as simple as opening her mouth. It has always meant surrendering pieces of herself to people who were never listening. Then Keonho moves in next door. Where Eunji is quiet, Keonho is laughter echoing through hallways. Where she hides from conversations, he collects them. He speaks to strangers as if they were old friends, believes every silence deserves filling, and carries a heart incapable of leaving anyone alone. To Eunji, he is exhausting. To Keonho, she is a mystery worth knowing. But some people are not symbols by accident. To Speak or To Die is a coming-of-age novel about vulnerability and the terrifying courage it takes to let another person truly know you. It asks what silence protects, what words destroy, and whether becoming yourself always requires losing the person you used to be. Because sometimes, the hardest thing to say is the very thing that can change everything.