He resumed the video.
He hadn't meant to type it. Not really. Or maybe he had meant it for weeks, and tonight was just the night the dam broke.
Ethan paused the video. He looked at his own search bar history, still visible in the dropdown:
The results loaded.
The rain had stopped. The blue glow faded. In the darkness, he could hear his own breathing—shallow, fast, as if he'd been caught.
Arya nodded, picking at a loose thread on the couch. "The worst part isn't the comments. It's the searches. Someone types our names together, and they think they're finding a fantasy. But we're real. We've fought over a boy. We've cried in each other's cars. We've had to explain to our mothers why our names are permanently attached to each other on the internet."
He resumed the video.
He hadn't meant to type it. Not really. Or maybe he had meant it for weeks, and tonight was just the night the dam broke. Searching for- lily rader arya fae in-All Categ...
Ethan paused the video. He looked at his own search bar history, still visible in the dropdown: He resumed the video
The results loaded.
The rain had stopped. The blue glow faded. In the darkness, he could hear his own breathing—shallow, fast, as if he'd been caught. Or maybe he had meant it for weeks,
Arya nodded, picking at a loose thread on the couch. "The worst part isn't the comments. It's the searches. Someone types our names together, and they think they're finding a fantasy. But we're real. We've fought over a boy. We've cried in each other's cars. We've had to explain to our mothers why our names are permanently attached to each other on the internet."