

Typing Hearts

 

Typing Hearts

Prologue: Unsent

---

[Noah’s Notes App – 2:17 AM]

I see him.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, third row, slouched in his seat like the world’s too small to hold his thoughts. Blue hair. Always smirking. Always laughing with people who talk louder than necessary.

I pretend I’m not watching.

I pretend I’m absorbed in Wuthering Heights for the fifth time. I reread the same paragraph just to avoid looking up. But sometimes—he laughs. And I forget what sentence I was on.

He caught me staring once.

I looked away so fast I got dizzy.

He didn't say anything. Just smiled.

I told myself I imagined it.

I wonder what he’d say if I spoke first.

But I won’t.

I never do.

---

[Private Message Draft – Unsent]

To: Jay Kim

hey… i think this is your number. i’m in your lit class. you dropped your pen once and i still have it. sorry.

Backspace.

Delete draft.

---

Chapter One: Lost Things

[Jay > Noah | 7:39 PM]

hey

sorry if this is weird

are you in Prof. Lin’s Lit Theory class?

[Noah > Jay | 7:45 PM]

…yes

who is this?

[Jay > Noah | 7:45 PM]

jay kim

blue hair, third row, always ten minutes late and pretending not to be

you dropped this today

(attachment: bookmark.jpg)

[Noah > Jay | 7:46 PM]

that’s mine

I didn’t realize it was gone

thanks

[Jay > Noah | 7:46 PM]

no prob

i was gonna give it to you after class but

you vanished like a ghost

was kind of impressive, honestly

[Noah > Jay | 7:48 PM]

I’m not great with crowds

or… people

[Jay > Noah | 7:49 PM]

same

but you’ve got more of the mysterious loner vibe

i just look like a chaotic raccoon with too much caffeine

[Noah > Jay | 7:49 PM]

I don’t drink caffeine

makes me jittery

[Jay > Noah | 7:50 PM]

see, you’re already ten times more elegant than me

thanks for giving me a reason to message

been meaning to say hi for a while

[Noah > Jay | 7:51 PM]

why?

[Jay > Noah | 7:51 PM]

idk

you looked interesting

quiet, always reading, kind of like you’re living in another timeline

i wondered what you’re thinking about all the time

[Noah > Jay | 7:52 PM]

usually?

the book I’m reading

or how long until I can go back to my room

[Jay > Noah | 7:52 PM]

lol

mood

but seriously, that book—Wuthering Heights, right?

you’ve been reading it since the start of the semester

[Noah > Jay | 7:53 PM]

it’s my favorite

this is my fifth time reading it

[Jay > Noah | 7:54 PM]

five times??

what is it about that book? I tried once—couldn’t get past chapter four

[Noah > Jay | 7:54 PM]

it's chaotic

and dark

and full of people who hurt each other

but it’s honest

no pretending things are okay when they’re not

[Jay > Noah | 7:55 PM]

that’s… kind of beautiful

in a messed-up way

[Noah > Jay | 7:55 PM]

exactly

[Jay > Noah | 7:56 PM]

what’s your favorite line?

[Noah > Jay | 7:57 PM]

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

[Jay > Noah | 7:57 PM]

wow

you just hit me in the heart at full speed

no warning

[Noah > Jay | 7:58 PM]

I warned you

you just didn’t read the label

[Jay > Noah | 7:58 PM]

so you can be witty

good to know

[Noah > Jay | 7:59 PM]

don’t tell anyone

it ruins the whole "mysterious and unreadable" thing

[Jay > Noah | 8:00 PM]

sworn to secrecy

scout’s honor

even though I was never a scout

[Noah > Jay | 8:00 PM]

you strike me more as

“chaos club president”

[Jay > Noah | 8:01 PM]

okay wow

i feel both attacked and seen

[Noah > Jay | 8:01 PM]

you said you wanted honesty

[Jay > Noah | 8:02 PM]

touche

but seriously

thanks for not blocking me immediately

I was half sure you'd ghost

[Noah > Jay | 8:03 PM]

I thought about it

still might

[Jay > Noah | 8:03 PM]

ouch

but valid

[Noah > Jay | 8:04 PM]

I’m not used to people noticing me

or trying to talk to me

especially like this

[Jay > Noah | 8:04 PM]

what’s “like this”?

[Noah > Jay | 8:05 PM]

like you actually want to

not because you need notes or help with an assignment

but because… I don’t know

you’re curious?

[Jay > Noah | 8:06 PM]

I am curious

but not in a bad way

you just feel like the kind of person I’d regret never knowing

[Noah > Jay | 8:07 PM]

people don’t usually say things like that to me

[Jay > Noah | 8:07 PM]

maybe they should

because it’s true

you ever get tired of being alone in your head?

[Noah > Jay | 8:08 PM]

every day

[Jay > Noah | 8:08 PM]

then let me sit in the quiet with you sometimes

I won’t try to fix it

just… exist beside you

[Noah > Jay | 8:09 PM]

you’re really good at saying things that feel too much

but in a way that doesn’t make me want to run

[Jay > Noah | 8:09 PM]

i’ll take that as the highest compliment you’ve ever given anyone

and probably ever will

[Noah > Jay | 8:10 PM]

you might be right

[Jay > Noah | 8:10 PM]

study together sometime?

or just

read in the same room and not talk?

I’ll even pretend not to peek at your annotations

[Noah > Jay | 8:11 PM]

you’d read over my shoulder?

[Jay > Noah | 8:11 PM]

guilty

but only if you don’t tell me to stop

[Noah > Jay | 8:12 PM]

…I wouldn’t

[Jay > Noah | 8:12 PM]

then it’s a date

or a not-date

whatever makes you comfortable

[Noah > Jay | 8:13 PM]

can it just be

a beginning?

[Jay > Noah | 8:13 PM]

yeah

i’d really like that

Author/Elisha: "Hey guys!! I was planning on creating this story as a chat story but for some reason it wont published in the chat story so I'll just do it as a chat-novel type of thingy story hehe and please!! Like my creation!! (yes im desperate hehe) 🐤

Main Characters

---

Noah Reed

Age: 20

Major: Literature

Year: Sophomore

Personality: Quiet, introspective, emotionally guarded

Appearance: Wavy dark brown hair, pale skin, always in oversized sweaters, often seen with a book in hand

Likes: Gothic novels, rainy days, classical music, warm tea, silence

Dislikes: Group work, loud parties, eye contact

Habits: Re-reads books obsessively, types then deletes messages multiple times, sketches in the margins of his notebooks

Secret: Writes anonymous poetry online under the name “Ghosttype”