Nico Bellini never planned to start over in Belgium. New country, new school, new life he never asked for. Quiet, guarded, and already convinced people like Liam Wilde are exactly the kind of problem he avoids. Liam is everything Nico distrusts: popular, effortlessly liked, captain of the football team, and always surrounded by noise and attention. Nico reads him wrong from the start and decides he represents everything fake about this place. But Liam doesn’t back off. What begins as irritation turns into constant clashes, forced proximity, and conversations neither of them handles well. Misunderstandings pile up. Assumptions replace truth. And neither of them knows how to say what they actually mean. In a school where everyone thinks they already understand them, Nico and Liam slowly start becoming the only people who don’t. A story about bad timing, worse communication, and feelings that neither of them are ready to name.