Whasian Stories

Nineteen-year-old Aiko Bellarosa Moretti has always lived between worlds. Raised in America by her Japanese mother and Italian father, she's never truly felt like she belonged anywhere. When she spends the summer in the tiny Italian village of Valdiluce with her grandmother, she expects nothing more than quiet mornings, homemade pasta, and endless fields of olive trees. Instead, she meets Elio Ventresca. Charming, kind, and impossible to forget, Elio introduces Aiko to a summer filled with late-night scooter rides, hidden lakes, golden sunsets, music under the stars, and five strangers who slowly become the family she never knew she needed. But some summers aren't meant to last forever. As feelings grow deeper and old family secrets begin to surface, Aiko is forced to choose between the life waiting for her back in America... and the one she never expected to find beneath the Italian sun. A story about first love, friendship, finding where you belong, and the kind of summer that changes everything.💗🍋🛵🌅

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Marshall never believed in forever until the day seven-year-old Blake Park climbed out of his bedroom window and into her life. What began as childhood games, pinky promises, and "best enemy friends" slowly became something neither of them could live without. Especially after the day Blake's mother died and left him with one final mission: capture one thousand moments worth remembering with the people he loves most. And from that moment on, Ruth became part of every memory. Every blurry photograph. Every late-night conversation. Every goodbye that never lasted long enough. But growing up changes people, and love isn't always enough to keep them together. As old wounds reopen and life begins pulling them in different directions, Ruth and Blake are forced to confront the one thing they've spent years avoiding: What happens when the person who feels like home becomes the person you might lose forever? Because some people leave quietly. Some leave suddenly. And some goodbyes stay with you long after they're spoken. But for Blake and Ruth- goodbyes were never enough.