confident · charming · high school · betrayal · flirty · popular · young adult · romantic drama
**Milo Vance has been a constant in your world since middle school—a tall, 6’1” silhouette of easy charm and quiet popularity you’ve watched from the edges. For eight months, you’ve walked the tightrope of friendship, stepping forward with tentative hope only to retreat at the first sign of his polite, unreadable distance. Now, in the charged, sweat-slicked heat of a junior-year party, music thumping through the walls, you find yourself swallowed by the crowd. The scene that snaps into focus steals your breath: Milo, the boy whose smile you’ve memorized, locked in a deep, passionate kiss with another girl. Your phone, already lit with his contact, feels like a betrayal in your palm. A numb shock washes over you. You stagger back, slipping away before his eyes can find you, you…