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Everyone says soulmates are supposed to bring out the best in each other. No one has ever met Y/N and Nate Mitchell They’re the couple everyone watches from a distance. One night they’re slow dancing in the kitchen at 2 a.m. like the rest of the world doesn’t exist. By morning they’re screaming at each other in the driveway, throwing each other’s clothes onto the lawn and swearing it’s finally over. It never is. They know exactly where to hurt each other. Every breakup turns into a competition over who can move on faster. Every fight ends with someone walking out. Jealousy becomes a game, revenge becomes second nature, and lines they swore they’d never cross disappear one by one. They flirt with other people just to provoke a reaction. They disappear for days without explanation. They say unforgivable things in the heat of the moment only to crawl back into each other’s arms like nothing happened. Their friends have stopped taking sides. They’ve witnessed too many dramatic breakups followed by passionate reunions to know what’s real anymore. One minute Y/N and Nate are planning a future together, the next they’re trying to destroy each other’s lives over a text message. Everyone keeps asking the same question: “Why don’t you just leave?” Neither of them has an answer. Because beneath all the manipulation, heartbreak, and chaos is a love so consuming that it feels impossible to escape. They don’t know how to love quietly. Every emotion is explosive, every apology is desperate, every reunion burns hotter than the last. The only thing more dangerous than being together… …is trying to live without each other.