We Never Finished

Milan Rhodes came to Langston Bell University to rebuild herself. After a private relationship with a rising influencer exploded into a public scandal, she returned to campus determined to stay quiet, stay focused, and stay unseen. She has her legacy, her grades, her future-and that's all she needs.

Until she meets Daveion Barnes.

He's the campus' quiet star: a nationally ranked 400/800 runner with a growing online following he never asked for, and an architecture major who spends more time sketching buildings than talking to people. He notices things. He listens. He sees her in a way she hasn't let anyone see her in a long time.

What starts as late nights in the Nexus Lab and accidental conversations on the quad becomes something neither of them names. Something soft. Something steady. Something almost.

But timing is cruel. Milan graduates early. Daveion stays behind. And the connection they never admitted slips into silence.

Years later, they return to Summit Grove for Homecoming-older, sharper, and carrying the weight of everything they didn't say. The campus is the same, but they aren't. And when their paths cross again, the truth hits harder than it did the first time:

They were never finished.

Now they have to decide whether the love they almost had was a moment... or the beginning of everything.