ive tries to mend your heart after they accidentally break it

An overture to the world, the wounds, the lore.

Morning tenderness. Five years of history in stolen touch.

A sin unseen. A bond untouchable. A love unmade.

A rave. A reckoning. Beauty as curse.

Three years ago, when they danced together. A stage ablaze, a ghost of glory. The night the gang burned the brightest.

Soundtrack list by chapter.

A towel drops. Two bodies fall. A morning unravels.

The goddess melts. The star explodes. The warmth that remains.

Softened in memory; emptied in sorrow; redeemed in water.

The body speaks what the mind refuses.

What the practice room gave, the pool deck takes.

A goddess opens her door. R&B and silk and something like salvation.

A hot girl morning gone wrong.

The shower. The boundary. The beginning of the end.

The world keeps turning, the music keeps playing, the night keeps burning, and joy keeps winning.

A catalogue of TL;DR recaps for each published chapter.

Destruction before rebirth. A world unmade. Bodies as apocalypse.

you and ive are shining in the dark (forever and ever and ever)

Tennis whites in the summer heat. When match play becomes foreplay, and every serve ups the ante.