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Yui Saisho has always felt a little out of place.
Quiet to the point of being overlooked, she's spent most of her life on the sidelines-watching friendships form without her, learning how to be invisible because it felt easier than trying to belong. People rarely talked to her, and when they did, it never lasted long. So when she's given the chance to join a student exchange program in Japan, she doesn't expect much more than a change of scenery.
What she doesn't expect is Karasuno High School-a place bursting with noise, warmth, and an almost ridiculous amount of energy. Or the family she's placed with, whose home is anything but quiet. Especially their son, a tall, sarcastic boy on the boys' volleyball team who seems to have a talent for getting under her skin. Tsukishima Kei is blunt, teasing, and clearly unimpressed by her silence, and Yui quickly decides she doesn't like him at all.
But Karasuno has a way of pulling people in.
Before she knows it, Yui is being dragged into gym practices, after-school chaos, and late afternoons spent watching a group of overly passionate boys chase their dreams across a volleyball court. Somehow, they decide she belongs there too. Even more confusing? Some of them are... kind of cute. Loud, annoying, but warm in ways she's never experienced before.
As days turn into memories, Yui begins to realize that maybe being quiet doesn't mean being invisible-and maybe, just maybe, she's allowed to take up space too.
cover by liquidlyn