Between the Lines of Our Notebooks

Por is the top student in his grade-quiet, precise, and always distant with everyone. He walks the hallways like a shadow with a purpose. Then there's Teetee Wanpichit-sunlight personified, with paint on his fingers, friends at every corner, and a laugh that makes people turn around.

They sit two rows apart in literature class. They've never spoken. But Teetee keeps stealing glances, and Por keeps writing secret poems in the margins of his notebook-about someone with a voice like spring and eyes like storms.

One unexpected group project. One rainy afternoon under the library eaves. And suddenly, it's not just pens and notebooks anymore. It's heartbeats, jealousy, hesitation, and the quiet hope that maybe, just maybe... they're not as different as they seem.