We Couldn't Explain This Either (While We Were Here Series #1)
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Last published Thu, Oct 9, 2025
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Some connections don't fit in theories or logic. or the timing we thought we had.
Ivonie was the type of person who analyze everything, why people left, why they stayed, why some people never learned how to treat and love properly. As a psychology student, she could label every emotion but didn't know how to feel them without overthinking.
Aiden was the type of person who keep quiet in everything, an IT student who made sense of systems, not people. His world was built on patterns, codes, and the safety of logic. And feelings were the kind of bugs he never learned how to debug.
They were from different faculties, majors to be exact. They have different ways of thinking. Different ways of surviving.
But maybe the mind doesn't always follow the rules. And maybe some connections, no matter how improbable it is defy the need to be explained.
This isn't about love at first sight. It's about the quiet unraveling of two people who weren't looking for each other, but found understanding in the same silence.
Because in the end, they couldn't explain it either.
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