I MET YOU BEFORE I MEET YOU

I MET YOU BEFORE I MEET YOU

I knew you before I knew your name.

What if the person you trust the most is someone you've never actually met?

For Elowen Virelle, Roblox is nothing more than an escape from reality.

Behind an avatar, she doesn't have to worry about expectations, school, family problems, or the pressure of figuring out what she wants to do with her life. She can simply be Veloura-a girl who spends her nights playing games and pretending tomorrow doesn't exist.

Then she meets Nyxen.

At first, he's nothing but an annoying stranger who keeps following her around the game.

But one game turns into two.

Two games turn into late-night conversations.

And late-night conversations slowly become something neither of them expected.

They become best friends.

They tell each other things they've never told anyone else. They laugh over stupid things, stay awake until sunrise, and become each other's favorite notification.

But they have rules.

No real names.

No pictures.

No social media.

And absolutely no meeting in real life.

They believe it's safer that way.

Until Elowen's ordinary life changes when a new student transfers into her university.

Caelan Aster.

He's confident, quiet, annoyingly calm, and somehow always manages to get under her skin.

They don't get along.

Not even a little.

Yet there's something about him that feels strangely familiar.

A certain phrase.

A certain laugh.

A certain way of teasing her.

Things that remind Elowen of someone she only knows through a screen.

But that's impossible.

Because Nyxen is somewhere out there.

And Caelan is standing right in front of her.

Two different people.

Two different lives.

At least, that's what Elowen believes.

Until she discovers that sometimes...

you can meet someone twice.

Once behind an avatar.

And once in real life.

And the hardest part isn't falling in love with the same person twice.

It's finding out that they were never two different people to begin with.