Top-floor flats. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Every movement visible. He wakes when you return from your nights as a bartender. You notice him as he starts his morning routine. Your lives are out of sync, yet connected by sight and subtle rituals. Glances linger, steps are mirrored, tension grows—and slowly, the alley between them begins to feel impossibly small.
Y/N finds a notebook that writes back—and the stranger on the other side quickly becomes someone she can’t live without. The only problem? In real life, they’re already enemies… they just don’t know it yet.
After a summer no one will talk about, Y/N and her inner circle—Pansy, Daphne, and Astoria—return to Hogwarts unrecognizable. Gone are the polished pure-blood girls. In their place? Smoke-stained lungs, shaking hands, sharp tongues, and secrets buried so deep even they won’t touch them. Draco, Blaise, Theo, Lorenzo, and Mattheo remember who the girls used to be. Now they’re faced with something much harder— figuring out how to love people who don’t want to be saved.