Black Coffee & Chaos

He is the most feared person on campus.
Rumor says he put three students in the hospital.
Nobody looks him in the eye. Nobody sits near him.
Nobody asks questions about Zian.

Nobody - except Milo.

Milo, who waved at him across the courtyard like he was just a person.

Milo, who carries a cactus named Gerald to lectures,
sets off fire alarms at midnight and replaces professors' markers with permanent ones.

Milo, who one morning found a coffee on his desk.
Black.
Two sugars. Exactly right.

No note. No name. No explanation.

Milo wants to know who.
Zian already knows everything.

One is running toward something.
The other has never learned to want without consuming.

This is not a soft story.
This is not a slow, gentle love.
This is a boy who smiles at everyone
and a boy who has never smiled at anything -
and what happens when one of them decides
the other one belongs to him.