Mark My Words! [N.H]

Set in 1985, where the nights hum with neon and every heartbreak plays on cassette.

Niall Horan isn't anyone special. At least not in a town like Avalon Heights-a place where quarterbacks get the girls and garage bands get noise complaints. He's got a secondhand guitar, a band that can barely hold a tune, and dreams bigger than the dingy diner he works at.

And then there's Lila Bloom, or as the whole school calls her-Birdie. Beautiful. Untouchable. The kind of girl you write songs about but never dare to sing them to. She's already spoken for, wrapped up in the letterman jacket of Jason Colby, the town's golden boy with a smirk that hides how often he cheats and lies.

It should've been simple-admire from afar, stay in your lane.
But then Niall finds her on the side of the road one rainy Friday night, eyeliner smudged, mascara streaking, and the truth unraveling in her tears.

And that's the moment everything changes.

"Mark my words," Niall whispers, knuckles white around his guitar case. "Lila Bloom will be mine."

High school halls, mixtape confessions, moonlit mistakes, and a love that defies the social script.
This is Avalon Heights. And nothing will ever be the same again.