AJ_Duchess
"Helloooo~ You reached Kitty.
If I don't pick up, I'm probably fixing my life, ruining it, or pretending I know what I'm doing."
Kitty Levy is seventeen, emotionally overcaffeinated, chronically sleep-deprived, and very aware she is a walking hormonal contradiction. One haircut away from a full identity crisis. (Too late-she already cut it.) One minute she's empowered, the next she's googling "why does life feel like this," and somehow that messy honesty makes her more assured than most people twice her age.
Her life "should" be simple: go to school, find a job, stop fighting with her older, more perfect sister, stop being the family disappointment, and try not to have a meltdown every time someone mentions adulthood.
But "simple" packed its bags and left the moment Kitty showed up.
Between volunteering, debating whether she's a genius or a disaster, and just trying not to fall apart in public, Kitty starts noticing something strange:
Wolf...
Annoyingly thoughtful. Disgustingly calm.
Four whole years older and accidentally the most grounding presence in her chaotic universe.
He answers her late-night calls. Lets her steal food off his plate even though he hates that. Listens to her spiral like it's the most normal thing in the world. And somehow, without trying, he keeps showing up at the exact moment she swears she doesn't need anyone.
Neither of them calls it romantic-because that would require emotional courage and clarity neither of them has. But there's something there. Something soft. Something she tries very hard not to think about.
Seventeen wasn't supposed to feel like limbo.
It wasn't supposed to feel this loud, this lonely, this dramatic, this... alive.
But maybe-just maybe-that's how you figure out who you are.
You Reached Kitty
A coming-of-age story about panic haircuts, late-night phone calls, barely-held-together confidence, found family, and the kind of almost-romance that slips in when you're too busy breaking and rebuilding yourself.