Dangerously Close

Aiah Arceta is the campus editor-in-chief-observant, composed, and always in control of her words.
Mikha Lim is a varsity athlete with a reputation-reckless, distant, and impossible to read.

They don't start as friends.
They don't start as anything as a matter of fact.

They start as two people forced to work together on a semester-long project-long hours of editing, shared deadlines, and a tension neither of them acknowledges out loud.

Mikha is protective in ways she never explains.
Aiah is soft-spoken, but emotionally unmovable.

Somewhere between long interviews, shared headphones, and hands brushing one second too long, they begin to see each other clearly-maybe too clearly. Conversations become too honest. Silence becomes heavy. Boundaries blur without either of them crossing them.

Because closeness doesn't always announce itself loudly.
Sometimes, it settles in quietly... until it becomes dangerous to ignore.

Dangerously Close is a slow-burn high school AU about restraint, emotional intimacy, and two people who see through each other long before they ever touch.

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