The half a second- LMSY

(Slow burn · Enemies to lovers · Secret relationship · Coming of age )

Sonya has a smile for everyone.

One for teachers. One for cameras. One for her parents, who planned her future when she was twelve. One for the boy everyone says is perfect for her. She has spent eighteen years becoming exactly what everyone wants, and she has never once asked herself what she wants.

Lookmhee isn't impressed.

A scholarship student who runs the sound from a booth at the back of the school's old auditorium, Lookmhee doesn't care about perfect girls or the rules they live by. She takes photographs of things nobody else notices, and she waits for the half second when people stop performing and become themselves.

From the very first day, she looks straight through Sonya's smile.

Forced to work together on the school's seventy-fifth anniversary gala, they clash over everything. But in an empty hall built to carry a single voice to the back row, Sonya starts saying things she has never said out loud. Lookmhee starts waiting for the moment the mask slips.

Neither of them planned to fall.

But loving Lookmhee means stepping out of the role Sonya has played her whole life. And for a girl who has only ever known how to be perfect, nothing is more terrifying than being real.

It's easy to love someone where nobody can see. The hard part is choosing them in the light.