North of Nowhere

Some nights feel louder than they should.
Some songs stay longer than they're meant to.

Ember has mastered the art of leaving before anything can ask her to stay. She moves through places, through people, through nights that blur into each other-never lingering long enough to be remembered.

Until one Friday at Haven's.

A band plays a song she didn't know she still carried inside her. A voice she's never heard before feels strangely familiar. And for the first time in a long while, Ember doesn't want to walk away.

Zavier doesn't know why he keeps looking at the door every Friday night. Only that someone he barely met has started occupying a space in his mind he can't explain.

They don't know each other's names.
They don't know each other's stories.
But somehow, they keep circling the same place, at the same time, pulled by something neither of them fully understands.

In a world where Ember survives by pretending, and Zavier sings to remember who he is, Haven's becomes the quiet crossing point between two people who are both a little lost-and a little too good at hiding it.