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Unmet Situationship

Nikoriarty
Nineteen years old, home for the holidays, and operating within the very specific kind of freedom that comes with loving parents who don't quite believe in it. Alya's world is small by design. Same four walls, same careful questions, same balcony she escapes to when the apartment starts closing in. Her phone is the one corner nobody has figured out how to take from her yet. So when a stranger in an anime Discord server says exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, she tells herself it's just a conversation. It's just a messaging app. It's just a boy named Seth who notices things she didn't know she was showing. Except she's checked his profile five times in one afternoon and told herself it doesn't mean anything. And he's been writing down things she says in a notes app since almost the beginning and didn't mention it for two weeks. And neither of them is calling it what it is: partly because they're still figuring that out, and partly because Alya can't afford to. Unmet Situationship is a slow-burn about two people who found each other in the only space they had. And what it costs to stay there.
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