Author's note
Author’s Note:
To you, reading this book right now
Thank you.
Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
This story started as a thought I was too scared to write down. Then it became a draft I was too nervous to share.
And somehow, because of a few incredibly annoying and incredibly wonderful people in my life, it became this.
To my friends you know who you are. You gave me the idea, the push, the “just write it already” that I needed more than I admitted.
This story exists because of your faith in me before I had any in myself. I don’t have the words to thank you properly, which is ironic given that I just wrote an entire book.
I have to be honest with you though.I am not perfect. This book is not perfect. You may find a grammar mistake that makes you wince, a sentence that reads a little off, a comma that has absolutely no business being where it is.
I see you. I’m sorry. I tried my best and my best was very human.But the heart of this story Elara, Caleb, the feelings between the lines that part I gave everything to.
I hope it finds you the way I meant it to.
With love and a little bit of nervousness,
NITHYA 🖤
ELARA HAYES:
Sunshine with a spine.
The kind of girl who remembers everyone’s coffee order, laughs at her own jokes before she finishes telling them and will somehow make you feel better about a problem she knows nothing about.
Friendly. Warm. A little chaotic in the best way.
But watch her when someone raises their voice in a room.Watch how her shoulders go up just slightly. How she gets very quiet very fast. How she smiles through it like she has had a lot of practice smiling through it.
She grew up in a house that was never silent. Always an argument around the corner, always someone yelling about something, always that particular kind of tension that lives in walls and never really leaves.
So calm became her love language before she even had words for it.
Not boring. Not passive. Just calm. The kind of person who never makes you feel like the world is ending even when it is.
She loves the stars. Deadpan humour. People who mean what they say. And silence that feels safe instead of scary.
CALEB LAURENTt:
Still waters.
Not the kind of man who walks into a room and demands attention. He is the kind of man who sits quietly in the corner and somehow becomes the most interesting person there without trying.
Physics was never just a subject for him. It is the way he sees everything. Patterns. Forces. The invisible things holding the world together. He finds beauty in explanation and never makes anyone feel small for not understanding.
He does not argue. He discusses. There is a difference and he knows it deeply.
Patient in a way that feels almost unfair. The kind of calm that is not an absence of feeling but a very deliberate choice about how to carry it.
He loves early mornings. Problems worth solving. And people who are curious about the world.
He never raises his voice.
Not once. Not ever.
