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Closer Than We Think (BxB)

Reads 1,175
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Parts 51
Time 13h 30m

Reads 1,175
Votes 192
Parts 51
Time 13h 30m

3 new parts

A (mostly) cozy friends-to-lovers BL about healing, high school, and second chances.

Two years ago, Jace Walker had it all - popularity, talent, and the kind of ego only an American teenage soccer star could have. Then he was kidnapped. Gone for two years. Experimented on. Forgotten by everyone but the nightmares.

Now he's back. Back at school. Back to pretending he's fine.
But Marcus, the school's new golden boy, sees right through him - and Jace can't decide if he hates him for it... or needs him.

As Jace struggles to rediscover who he is, he finds something unexpected: friendship, love, and maybe even himself again.

Will he ever stop being the boy who disappeared? Or is he becoming someone new entirely?

Ranking Milestones:
#40 in Boys
#1 in Superslowburn
#1 in BisexualawakeningAll Rights Reserved

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