All We Left Unspoken

"I never had a chance did I?" I say.
"That's the funny thing- you did once."
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Mika is an immigrant from Latvia who came with his mother to the States with nothing but the clothes on their backs. He tried his hardest to stray away from the light and keep in the shadows at school, for the sake of his mother. He does everything for his mother, even putting her own needs before his. The last thing he needs right now is to fall in love. Until August Tether.
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August has always been a glass-half-full kinda gal. Anybody who's ever met her would tell you she radiates light from her every crevice. She's the golden child at home, the model student at school, and the fun one out of her friends. The one everybody wants at their party, but what happens behind closed doors? August fully believes she can keep up the facade. Nobody needs to know what happens at night after everybody's gone home, and her parents have fallen asleep. Until Mika Ivanova.
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Ten years later, Mika has a blossoming business, and August is a successful lawyer, soon to be wed to the love of her life. They don't think of each other. Except, in the mornings, the afternoons, and at night. Surely it's harmless, they no longer talk of course. Until they run into each other at a New York coffee shop. Suddenly, they're both fifteen again, old wounds you once thought had healed opened, and fresh ones are slowly being carved into your skin. Healed over scars suddenly break and the stakes are higher than they ever were.