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The hidden love

The hidden love

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Chapter 1 The Quiet Glance

Rain tapped softly on the windowpanes of Alder High School, a rhythm that matched the quiet heartbeat of Elara Winters as she sat in the back row of Room 214. Her eyes weren't on the chalkboard, where Mr. Calloway was explaining the intricacies of 19th-century poetry, but on the boy sitting three rows ahead - Liam Arden.

Liam, with his messy dark hair and perpetually ink-stained fingers, was the kind of person who lived in his own world. He always had a book in his hand, always scribbled in the margins, and never seemed to notice the way people watched him - especially Elara.

Elara had loved him quietly, secretly, for almost a year. Not the loud, fluttery kind of love her friends gushed about, but a steady, aching one. It wasn't just how he smiled when he read something beautiful, or how he stayed late after class helping others - it was the way he made the world feel a little softer, just by being in it.

He didn't know. He couldn't know.

Because Liam was everything she wasn't - confident, charismatic, and fearless. And she? She was the girl with silent footsteps and a heart full of secrets. No one really noticed her - not like they noticed him.

Still, sometimes, when the light hit just right or the class was quiet enough, Elara would catch him staring out the window, eyes lost in thought, and she'd wonder what it would be like if he turned and saw her - really saw her.

That day, as Mr. Calloway handed out a group assignment, fate decided to stir.

"Arden, Winters - you're partners."

Elara froze. Her pencil nearly rolled off the desk.

Liam turned around, eyes meeting hers for the first time in what felt like forever. There was a curious tilt to his head, a flicker of something in his gaze - recognition, maybe?

"Hey," he said with a small smile. "Looks like we're working together."

Elara swallowed hard, her voice barely a whisper.

"Yeah... looks like it."

But in that moment, something changed. A door creaked open between their two worlds.

And Elara's hidden love had just stepped out of the shadows.

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