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Y/N and Roman Knox have spent seven years of their lives side by side. Seven birthdays. Seven summers. Seven years of scraped knees, late-night phone calls, family holidays, inside jokes, and a friendship so inseparable that everyone around them assumes they’ll end up together someday. The only people who don’t seem to realise it are them. As their final summer before adulthood begins, everything starts to shift. Lingering touches last a little longer. Jealousy becomes impossible to ignore. The lines between friendship and something more blur until, on the night of their Y/N’s eighteen birthday, beneath a sky they’ve watched together since they were children, they finally admit the truth. They’ve been in love with each other for years. It should’ve been the beginning of their story. Instead, before the night is over, everything changes. No one will tell her where he went. No one will tell her what really happened that night. As the months turn into years, Y/N refuses to let go of the boy who promised he’d come back. But hope has an expiration date, and eventually she’s forced to decide whether to keep waiting for a future that may never come.