"I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain, now it's 2 am and I'm cursing your name."
Hope Brown wasn't planning on sticking around, neither was her grandma.
New town, new summer, same plan: stay invisible, stay moving, never let anyone matter.
But the Sandlot boys have a way of noticing things-especially Benny, all swagger and sunlight, the kind of boy who turns base-stealing into hard liqour poetry.
Hope throws harder than she talks. She barely smiles, but when she does... it sticks with you. She's got calluses on her palms and a storm behind her eyes.
And Benny? Benny's the first person who doesn't flinch.
"He asked what I was running from. I asked what he was running toward. We never answered."
In a summer of cracked bats, firefly-lit fences, and almost-kisses that taste like bubblegum and fear, Hope has to decide:
Does she want to be the girl who leaves again-or the one who finally stays?
"I have emotional motion sickness, somebody roll the windows down."
"You can hear it in the silence, you can feel it on the way home, you can see it with the lights out, you are in love, true love." - ୨ৎ
IN WHICH: Y/N goes on vacation to a town just outside of Paris, she meets her celebrity crush and falls over the moon inlove with him. But does he feel the same way?
TROPE: friends to lovers
#1 in Robin Arellano: Sep 23
#1 in Miguel Cazarez Mora: Sep 23
Started: 08-05-23
Ended: 09-17-23
Edited: Dec 23