Stranger (Dabby)

Some secrets don't explode.
They seep.
They change everything.

Dani thought she knew who she could trust. She thought friendship meant loyalty-safety. It also meant choosing each other when things got messy. But a personal truth slips out of her control, everything she believed about people closest to her faded.

Gabby Lewis once her anchor, feels suddenly distant. Familiar but wrong. Like someone wearing a face of a girl Dani used to know. And how badly Dani wants to rewind-to go back before that night. She can't. She couldnt ignore the quiet truth settling in her chest: some things don't go back to the way they were.

But Gabby was now just a stranger Dani knew everything about.

Dani has to decided whether if she wants to face Gabby, or have a pit in her chest-but also come to realize she can't hide herself from the world, because it's hurting her.