the habit of you.

rowan never expected a late-night message from a stranger to become the thing she measured years of her life by.

what starts as a conversation between two girls hundreds of miles apart quickly becomes something neither of them can define and neither of them can seem to walk away from. night after night, they build a world together through phone screens and late calls, sharing pieces of themselves with a kind of honesty that feels impossible with anyone else. for a while, it feels like fate.

until it doesn't.

because loving violet is never simple.

she leaves, then comes back. she says all the right things, then disappears without warning. just when rowan begins to heal, violet finds a way back into her life, reopening wounds that never had the chance to close. years pass in a cycle of missed timing, unanswered questions, and words neither of them are brave enough to say when it matters most.

through heartbreak, distance, and the painful reality of growing up, rowan finds herself haunted by the same question: how do you move on from someone who never fully leaves?

aching, intimate, and painfully familiar, the habit of you is a story about first love, emotional dependency, and the people who become woven into our lives long after they're gone. it's about the texts you never delete, the memories you revisit when you should know better, and the person you keep searching for in everyone else.

because sometimes the hardest relationship to let go of isn't the one that ended.

it's the one that never really had a chance to begin.