To be understood

She came back to the place that broke her.

He came to escape the place that almost did.

Rory Warren was supposed to leave, coming back to her old school for sixth form was never part of the plan. Neither was losing the one person she was supposed to leave with, the one person who made everything make sense. Now every corridor feels wrong, every memory feels too loud and moving on feels impossible.

Elijah Bennett isn't just starting over, he's hiding. Whatever happened at his old school isn't something he talks about, and he plans to keep it that way. New people, new rules, no past. But no matter how hard he tries to bury it, the guilt, the anger, the truth, it's all still there, waiting to catch up with him.