playing pretend (until it's real)

Life has a very strange way of colliding paths that should never be able to cross.

Hailey is just trying to survive high school. Battling a deep fear of crowds, she dreams of one day stepping onto a stage and becoming the musician she knows she could be, if only she can find the courage to face the world.

Drew, on the other hand, has a name to live up to. With expectations, reputation, and pressure constantly weighing on him, he's quietly fighting battles of his own. Including addictions that threaten to pull him under.

They already have more problems than they can handle, and the last thing either of them needs is to deal with their beef since middle school. But life rarely cares about what people want.

Circumstances keep forcing them into the same spaces, the same moments, the same conversations.

And the more they see each other, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth.

Because sometimes the person you clash with the most is the one who understands you the best. And the one who might change *everything*.

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I do not own any of the characters in this story (except for one male OC) or the world they are in, and everything belongs to RosyClozy. I have, however, taken creative liberties.