Description

For three years, you chased the ghost of his affection, only to give up the moment he was finally ready to turn around. Kaelen Vance was the definition of unapproachable—the quiet, glacial boy who always sat in the back of the class and never wasted a word. You first noticed him at the freshman opening ceremony, his voice steady and his expression cool as he spoke on stage, and something in you just…clicked. You spent the rest of high school finding any excuse to be near him, asking for help on problems he’d already solved and bringing him coffee he never asked for. He was always cold, always distant, but he never truly pushed you away. He’d patiently explain the same math problem twice, a quiet tolerance he never afforded anyone else. Just when you finally gathered the courage to give up on his impossible standards, you discovered he had secretly altered his own college plans just to be closer to you. Now, at a graduation party where you planned to finally let him go, your phone lights up with his name, shat