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    It starts with a harmless lie. A simple “We’re dating” to avoid nosy questions. But things start to spiral when Lottie's friends buy into it.

    Natalie and Lottie get stuck pretending to be in a relationship, all while navigating their casual, no-strings-attached fling. As the pressure builds and the lines between fake and real blur, they’re forced to confront feelings neither saw coming.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    This ingenious plan lasts all of three months before Lottie Matthews is rapping at her door, and she’s in Natalie’s arms, and all Natalie can feel is the rush of wind through the trees, and the sharp sting of lake water in her eyes, and Lottie’s comfortable warmth.

    And that’s when it all goes to absolute shit.

    — After the rescue, Nat cuts contact. But then Lottie shows up at her door to escape being sent to Switzerland and she’s right back in it.

    — Or, how they begin to heal. Slowly. Together. They are young and they are learning how to live.

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    23 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 60

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    Yolanda knows Trinity's hands intimately. She knows the rhythm of them at work, fast and precise and unendingly capable. She has the feeling of them on her waist at two in the morning, warm under the hem of her shirt and pressing into the lower edges of her ribs, memorized. She can find the half-moon scar near Trinity's right thumb without a second glance and is familiar with the way she cracks her knuckles every morning as soon as she wakes up, like her own personal version of a morning stretch.

    So when, hardly an hour into their night out with coworkers, Trinity's fist slams into a man's face hard enough to send him staggering into the edge of a high-top table, Yolanda is so stunned that she reels almost as hard as the actual recipient of the punch.

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    21 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 81

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    Nat’s a drug addict. Lottie’s a prophet. Shauna’s trying to talk to the dead. Tai’s sleepwalking and eating dirt. Van’s pretending it’s still 1996 and nothing bad has ever happened.

    — The college AU after the crash.

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    21 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 91

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    It was them against everything.

    Every night they weren’t falling apart, they were doing homework at the kitchen table in the Palmers’ trailer. Sharing headphones. Rewriting essays. Practicing college interview questions they’d probably never get asked.

    They worked because they had no other option.

    They were tired. They were bruised. They were good.

    And they were going to get the hell out, even if it killed them.

    (title and chapter names from Susie Save Your Love, by Allie X)

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    14 Jun 2026