Keep This To Ourselves

Senior year was supposed to be about prom, caps, and getting out... but for Brianna and Kendall, it hit way different.

Brianna, out in Huntsville, stay stuck in a cycle she swear she done with running back to an ex that keep proving her wrong every time. Her mama fed up, patience gone, and the house don't even feel like home no more. Every choice Brianna make got consequences knocking right behind it, but she ain't ready to face that yet.

Down in Birmingham at Ramsey, Kendall dealing with something deeper than drama. She don't feel right in her own skin, and the only time she feel seen is when somebody mistake her for a boy, or compliment her like one. That confusion? It ain't going nowhere, just getting louder. And while her mama tries to love her through it, her daddy caught between that love and the beliefs he been raised on, making everything feel complicated.

Two girls in two different cities, both trying to figure themselves out while the world and their families got something to say about it.

Then come Likely
A random app. A random message.
And suddenly, nothing about their lives stay the same.

What start off as just talking turn into something deeper something that force them to question everything: love, identity, faith, and what it really mean to be accepted when you Black, young, and different.

This ain't no perfect coming-of-age story.
It's messy, real, a little reckless... and it don't shy away from the way the Black community wrestles with religion and LGBTQ+ identities where love and judgment sometimes sit in the same room.

But one thing for sure
after they find each other, ain't neither one of them walking away the same.

*PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU READ*

Mentions of SA and All forms of abuse are present in this story, please with that in mind dont read if it's something you cannot handle. Thank you so much and enjoy.