Pretending is just another habit | Theodore Nott
Y/N has always been good at looking fine. In a flat full of noise, chaos, and friends who know each other a little too well, she learns how to blend in—smiling at the right moments, laughing when expected, and keeping the parts of herself she doesn’t want seen carefully hidden beneath routine. It works. Until Theodore Nott starts noticing. He doesn’t ask questions at first. He just watches. Remembers. Pieces things together in silence until the patterns become impossible to ignore. And instead of pushing, he stays—quietly, persistently—showing up in small moments that start to feel less like coincidence and more like intention. What begins as friendship slowly turns into something neither of them has words for. Theo, who hides everything behind sarcasm and chaos, starts caring in ways he can’t easily joke away. Y/N, who has spent so long being “fine,” begins to realize she’s never been looked at quite like this before. In a world of loud friends, late nights, and messy young adulthood, it becomes a slow, quiet unraveling of everything they don’t say—and everything they start to feel anyway.
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