It wasn't exactly ages ago-though it feels like a lifetime now. Maybe six years, give or take. Marinette hadn't planned on crossing paths with her brother's best friend that night. It was supposed to be nothing-just another encounter, another face in the background of her world. But something about him drew her in, like shadows pulling at the edges of a dream. She told him things she hadn't told anyone else. Secrets. Fears. Pieces of herself she usually kept hidden. And he listened-not out of obligation, but like he understood, like he saw her. She trusted him. But what Marinette didn't know then-what she couldn't have seen coming-was that somewhere between the stolen glances and quiet conversations, he began to fall for her. Not just a crush, not just infatuation. He fell. Deep. Hard. Completely. And that changed everything.
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