14 parts Ongoing As they navigate high school hallways, old scars, and ghosts they don't speak of, they're pulled back together slowly, painfully, beautifully. But love like their's doesn't come easily. Especially when the past refuses to stay buried, and the world keeps asking more than either of them are ready to give.
Erebus Nyxson has always lived in the shadows not by choice, but because it's where he was placed. With parents who can't stand the sight of him and a heart full of things he was never allowed to say, he's learning to stay quiet. Cold. Alone. Feared.
Until her
Thea Solara moved in next door with paint on her fingers, messy braids, a mind full of stories and color no one else could see, and sunlight in her voice. She was bright without even trying. She doodled in the margins of her notebooks, read until her eyes ached, and look at people like she already knew their heart.
Then sixth grade ended in tragedy.
Her mother, gone.
Her father, arrested.
And Thea vanished with no warning taken across the country to live with the only family left.
Ery never stopped thinking of her. Never stopped keeping her in quiet memories, in things no one would understand.
Now, years later, Thea is back.
She's different. Quieter. There's a shadow in her eyes that wasn't there before. But the light? It still shines. And it wrecks him all over again.
This is a story about the quiet kind of love; the kind that waits in the dark for the sun to rise.