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Some stories don’t begin with fireworks. They begin with friendship and shared summers.
Every summer, two families visit a sun-bleached beach house to make a handful of memories. Angela Giarratana and Damien Haas grew up side by side, their families bound by sun-soaked vacations and the kind of affection that felt inevitable.
One quiet confession by the ocean. One last summer. They had no idea it would be the last.
Ten years later, fate finally throws them together again and it isn’t the same easy summer sky that greets them.
But some summers never really end.
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19 Nov 2025
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Across the stage, Garroth looked…different. Laurance suddenly noticed that his face had smoothed out, never having realized that Garroth’s face was taut with tension to begin with. His posture was straight, shoulders low and relaxed. His eyes were wide and an open, almost child-like expression, his cheeks flushed a pretty red that made his freckles all that more apparent. He was panting, slightly, and from here, Laurance could see sweat beading lightly on Garroth’s forehead.
Laurance inhaled sharply and Garroth’s relaxed expression became concerned again. “Are you okay?” he asked. “You’re crying.”
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- Part 2 of you'll find me here
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14 Sep 2025
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“the lord cannot give you what you seek if you do not speak your wishes,” a voice smooth and taunting draws near. laurance remembers the other man’s presence in the chapel and grits his teeth.
he does not look behind him. he will find blond strands and blue eyes in dark features, and he will begin thinking again.
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14 Sep 2025
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A worktrip on Damien's birthday changes his life as he feels himself growing closer to the anomaly of it, Angela. Of course, he admired and respected her kindness and talent, but that didn't mean he had a crush or anything.. maybe just a talent crush...That's what it was, a talent crush, totally harmless and entirely innocent and nothing concerning between two colleagues, especially as he refused to allow it to grow into anything more.
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- Part 1 of Nikki's Damangela Fics
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09 Sep 2025
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The story was never meant to go like this.
She leans down, and she kisses the girl.
She is not meant to do this. But she does it anyway.
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darling and apple, a story told backwards.
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12 Feb 2024