The Way Fate Found Us

It was supposed to be nothing more than a picnic.
Salt in the air. Waves folding into the shore.
Strangers scattered across the sand.
Katashi Mori stood at the edge of everything - quiet, unnoticed, certain she was never meant to be chosen. Love was something that happened to other people. Not to girls like her. Not to someone who hid behind soft smiles and silence.
Kai Ryu was the opposite.
Famous. Untouchable. Arrogant in his calm.
The kind of boy who kept his distance and made sure everyone else did too. He didn't believe in people. He certainly didn't believe in fate.
And yet, fate believed in them.
One accidental meeting by the sea.
One look that lasted a second too long.
One moment that refused to disappear.
They were never meant to matter to each other.
But fate has a strange way of choosing its favorites.
And sometimes, the person who feels the least worthy of love becomes someone's entire world.
Sometimes, the boy who avoids everyone finds the one person he cannot walk away from.
Because when fate finds you -
it doesn't ask for permission.