he exists in a completely different part of the world, the one everyone notices in the hallway but never really reaches her life and they’ve never talked not even once like not a glance that meant anything more than passing and then it’s 2:17 AM and everything is quiet and somehow she accidentally likes one of his stories without even thinking about it like it means nothing like it should mean nothing until “Ethan Cole is typing…” appears on her screen and it’s stupid how fast her chest tightens like her body already knows this is going to change something even before it happens because he’s never talked to her before not once and then his message comes in you watch all my stories and never say anything thought i’d text you first and suddenly the distance between them doesn’t feel so fixed anymore