The steps between us.
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✨For six years, Ilona Buziliav and Avery Alcaraz have walked the same sidewalk home from school-side by side, laughter echoing down the pavement. Ilona, a quiet but observant 17-year-old with a heart full of stories and secrets, has loved Avery since the fifth grade, when his crooked smile made moving to a new town a little less scary. But fear has always held her back-from telling him, from hoping. Now, with senior year slipping through their fingers and everything about to change, Ilona has to decide: risk the friendship she's always known, or finally take that one step closer to the love she's always dreamed of.✨
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