The spaces between

At sixteen, Leandro Bellini lost everything overnight.

One kiss, soft and stolen, meant only for the boy he loved, was all it took to shatter his world. His father's rage was swift, his mother's silence louder than any scream. And just when he thought the worst had passed, Elliot Moore, his best friend, his boyfriend, his one safe place, vanished.

No explanation. No goodbye. Just gone.

Leandro spent years pretending it didn't destroy him, numbing himself to the ache Elliot left behind. But fate knows how to play a cruel joke.

Same school, same dorm room, same boy who once meant everything. Elliot is here, but the space between them is a wound that refuses to heal, a past neither of them can outrun.