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WARNING!!! SLOW BURN BUT DEFINITELY WORTH IT
Ivory Kristine Campo learned early that people were easier to forget than to keep.
Seven names exist somewhere in her memory - some tied to laughter that faded too quickly, some to nights she barely remembers, and others to friendships that crossed lines neither of them fully understood. She never called them mistakes. Mistakes required regret, and regret meant looking back long enough to feel something.
As a freshman architecture student, she spends her days designing structures meant to stand against time, while quietly dismantling every connection that threatens to last. Control is her comfort. Distance is her safety. And love, as far as she knows, is simply another illusion people cling to when they're afraid of being alone.
Until she meets him.
Nine years older, steady where she is restless, silent where she hides behind indifference - he doesn't try to chase her or change her. Instead, he sees through her in ways that feel dangerously close to understanding. What begins as coincidence slowly turns into something heavier, something that refuses to stay temporary.
For the first time, Ivory is forced to confront the possibility that she has never been protecting herself - only running.
And when reality begins to test them - her youth, his experience, the distance between who they are and who they want to become - love becomes less of a feeling and more of a choice they must build carefully, piece by piece, like a fragile structure that could either become a home... or collapse under its own weight.
Because some people enter your life quietly.
And then they become the one thing you cannot walk away from.
THE NAMES AND PLACE OF THIS STORY ARE PURELY FICTIONAL, WHILE THE EVENTS ARE REAL THEY DO NOT HOLD THE WHOLE PRIVATE DETAILS IN RESPECT TO THE PEOPLE INVOLVED, THIS IS MADE FROM THE INFLUENCE OF FICTION AND ONLY INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS.
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