For When the Rain Finally Stops
25 parts Complete 17-year-old Ari Mendoza has one goal: graduate quietly, get into her dream art school, and leave her small town behind. She keeps her head down, avoids drama, and paints in the old storage room behind the gym-her secret sanctuary.
Enter Luca Reyes-basketball captain, school heartthrob, and the kind of guy who seems to have everything. But after his father's sudden death, Luca starts skipping practice, failing classes, and withdrawing from his friends. When he gets caught sneaking into Ari's hidden art room one night (looking for somewhere to escape), an unlikely friendship begins.
Ari teaches him how to paint; Luca teaches her how to be seen. But as the lines blur between friendship and something deeper, their worlds begin to collide-his perfect image, her hidden pain, and a secret that could ruin both their futures: Ari's art scholarship depends on a portrait of a "subject she truly understands."
And that subject... is Luca.