Soft Damage

Two girls keep orbiting each other for years.

Everytime they get too close, something blows up. Every time they drift apart, they find their way back.

Neither of them are fully sure whether they're best friends, almost lovers, soulmates, or just each other's favourite disaster.

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Aleyah Caddy thought she'd buried Jade Mallory somewhere between unanswered messages, cruel words and the kind of heartbreak nobody takes seriously when it happens between two best friends.

Two years later, Jade unexpectedly turns up at Royal Holloway University. The exact Place Allie finally started rebuilding herself after everything fell apart.

Now suddenly, she's everywhere again.
Across crowded courtyards.
In late-night library sessions.
In stolen glances that linger too long.

The problem is, some people don't stop feeling like home just because they left.

And when old memories, new relationships and the truth about what really happened between them begin clawing back to the surface, Allie and Jade are forced to confront the one thing they've both spent years avoiding.

Maybe they were never just friends in the first place.

And maybe, some people are impossible to stop loving - even when they hurt you.