Saving Athena ✓

"Say something," he snaps, "or is that pretty little mouth of yours finally going to stay shut?"

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Four-point five hundred seventy-one billion years ago the galaxy formed. The planets were set into orbit and four-point five hundred forty-three billion years ago the earth was created. Human life as we know it was started.

All of that expansion led Athena Grace to Ace Hawthorne.

She had never met someone so malicious, someone willing to put himself above others in a switch.

He had never met anyone so wholehearted, someone willing to give up their happiness for everybody else's.

All it took was one simple tug of the door for her to fall into him, for her to see the boy with a demure smile that covered his cheeks like stardust.
And just like that, the fate of the universes collided.

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"You waited for me?" I ask, a small smile playing on my lips as I tilt my head.

"Didn't want to get up," he rests his elbows on the table and supports his face.

I stare at him in awe, big black eyes with thick lashes that flutter against his honey skin. His lips are pink and they get pinker when he chews on them, and he has a tiny scar right beneath his jaw.

He stirs. "Why are you staring at me?"

"Is it too early in our friendship to call you pretty?" I murmur, not caring to stop my words as my eyes flicker to his. He opens his mouth to say something, then presses his lips together and stays silent, but his cheeks slightly turn pink which makes my heart thump out of my chest. "Oh my God, you're blushing."

"What? No-" He takes his elbows off the table and wipes at his cheeks. "No, I'm just hot."

"I called you pretty," I bite my lips. "And now you're blushing."

"Be quiet, Athena. I'm not blushing. I don't blush." He drapes his arms across his chest.

"Ace Hawthrone," I lean closer on the table. "I most definitely made you blush."

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Started: September 5, 2020.
Completed: March 8, 202