Iris Lynch doesn’t talk much. She doesn’t need to—her world has always been small, contained, built around her twin brother and the quiet promise that they’ll never leave each other behind. Oleander Perez is the opposite. Loud, relentless, and completely incapable of hiding the way he looks at her. She ignores him. He doesn’t stop. Somewhere between jokes, silence, and things left unsaid, something starts to shift—and Iris is forced to face the one thing she’s always avoided: what it means when someone stays.