CosetteAwad
She wrote letters to a boy on a poster. She never sent them. He was a K-pop idol with six million followers. He once liked one of her quotes.
Casey has been writing to Joon since she was sixteen, letters she never sends, dreams she never speaks out loud. They're her secret, her hope, her proof that somewhere in the world, someone is looking at the same moon.
But life doesn't wait for fairytales.
Between her mother's slow forgetting, three jobs that leave her breathless, and a heart that's learning to break and heal, writing to Joon is the only thing that keeps her going.
Then she meets Dee, fierce, broken, hiding a hoodie she's kept for three years from a boy she never knew the name of.
Then Cash appears, rich, persistent, and carrying a cat in a bubble backpack. He's been looking for Dee since the night he punched her ex in a McDonald's parking lot.
Then Minmin returns from Seoul, bringing Marc with him, a shy trainee who's been sending Casey moon photos for years, proof that she's never been alone.
Then Jasmina finds her, a chief editor who reads Casey's words about her mother's forgetting and refuses to let her disappear. She opens a door Casey didn't even know existed.
Suddenly, Casey's world is full. Of chaos. Of friendship. Of people who stay.
And somewhere, in a city she's never seen, a boy with six million followers is reading her words and looking for her too.
A story about waiting. About the things we carry while we wait. About the moon that connects everyone who's ever looked up and wondered if someone, somewhere, was looking back.
For everyone who's ever written letters they never sent.
For the girl with a poster. For the boy who kept the quote. For the friends who stayed.