Lifetime

A novel by Diee

There are people we meet by chance who eventually become part of our everyday lives-until one day, they are no longer ours to keep.

Set in a quiet hometown where memories linger in classrooms, rain-soaked streets, and late-night conversations, Lifetime follows a college student who becomes drawn to a mysterious girl hiding behind oversized shirts, long bangs, and unreadable eyes. What begins as simple curiosity slowly turns into something deeper through shared interests, midnight chats, promises of waiting, and a love that quietly grows in the spaces between friendship and commitment.

But love, no matter how sincere, is not always enough.

As the years pass, distance begins to grow between them despite fate constantly pulling their paths back together. Group projects, lingering conversations, familiar hallways, and unfinished feelings force them to confront the painful truth that some people can remain close to your life while becoming impossibly far from your heart.

Told through nostalgic and emotionally intimate prose, Lifetime is a bittersweet story about young love, regret, growing up, and the haunting question left behind by relationships that were never fully realized:

By chance, is there a lifetime waiting for us in a world where we were each other's?