Introduction

𝐖𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐒.

Some people enter your life like fate.

Some were there long before you knew their names.

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔 (

𝑨𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒆

Nineteen. Quiet, sharp-eyed, and impossible to read. Aster has a habit of standing slightly apart from the world around her, as if she is watching something no one else can see. She speaks little, notices too much, and carries a stillness that feels older than it should.

𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓

Twenty-one. The eldest, and the gentlest kind of strength. Alice is warmth in human form—the one who remembers the little things, keeps everyone together, and makes care look effortless. If the group has a home, it is Alice.

𝑰𝒗𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒆

Nineteen. Chaotic, dramatic, and impossible to ignore. Ivy is all sharp laughter, quick words, and carefully disguised affection. She has a talent for turning irritation into an art form and making herself unforgettable in the process.

𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒖

Eighteen. Sweet, soft-spoken, and easy to underestimate. Angel has a quiet way of noticing what others miss, and a kind of gentleness that makes people lower their guard. But softness has never meant weakness.

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*They said friendship was built by chance.

We disagreed.

Some souls don't meet for the first time.

They simply find each other again—

after years of silence,

after lives changed by things they never understood.

We were four girls with different stories,

different scars,

and the same sky above us.

We thought we became a family.

We didn't know...

we had always been one.*

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐘𝐒

𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒓

22, Calm, observant, and difficult to unsettle, Lucien has the unnerving habit of asking the wrong questions at exactly the wrong time. There is very little about him that feels accidental.He has a habit of asking questions no one wants to answer.

𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆

21, Steady, warm, and impossible not to trust, Elias has a way of making people feel looked after without ever making it obvious. He notices more than he says, and says less than he knows.The kind of person who listens before speaking and understands more than he lets on.

𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒕

20,Charming, reckless, and entirely too entertained by other people’s reactions, Roman treats life like a joke right until the moment it stops being funny. There is always more to him than he allows anyone to see. Behind every joke is a secret he's careful not to reveal.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒐 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕

20,Quietly dependable and gentle without being fragile, Theo carries the sort of calm that makes everything around him feel less frightening. Some people are loud in the way they care. Theo never needs to be.He believes the smallest acts of kindness often matter the most.

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And somewhere between old grief, quiet lies, and the things no one says aloud,

eight lives begin to circle the same buried past.

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𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐭,

𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟.

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲.

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧.