Before We Were Us

Dedication -"To the silence that screamed love."
- Socialitesloth

What happens when two people who were never meant to collide somehow end up orbiting each other?

She's bold, guarded, impulsive, a girl with walls too high and eyes that dare anyone to climb them.

He's quiet, thoughtful, composed, a boy who keeps his emotions tucked beneath silence and steady glances.

They meet by accident. A basketball drill. A sharp dismissal. A retort that leaves both of them reeling more than they show. What should've been a moment easily forgotten lingers longer than it should.

What do you do when the person you didn't expect to notice suddenly becomes impossible to ignore?

As slow conversations replace the silence, as casual nods become quiet trust, something begins to grow between them. No declarations. No dramatic turns. Just... something. Unspoken. Real.

But what happens when life throws something too big, too cruel, too sudden into the middle of it?

When an unexpected diagnosis pulls one of them away before anything could truly begin?

How do you grieve someone who's still alive but no longer there?

How do you keep showing up to the places they used to be, hoping they might still appear?

And how do you move forward when the silence they left behind says more than any goodbye ever could?

Before We Were Us is a story of tension and tenderness, of almosts and aching silences. A story of falling for someone in slow, quiet ways and learning that even the softest love can hurt the loudest when it ends before it ever fully begins.