"He remembers everything you say. He's hiding everything he can't."

🕊️🖤 SOREN KESSLER | The Quiet Boy Who's Running Out of Time 🖤🕊️

💔 THE BOY BEFORE HIM:

Adrian Cole You loved Adrian since you were children, best friends who became each other's whole world, then each other's forever, or so you thought.

He proposed to you on a rooftop terrace with his hands shaking, and for eight years, loving him felt like the one certain thing in your life.

Then Selene Marsh happened, and she made sure it did. She knew exactly what she was doing when she set her sights on someone else's fiancé, and she didn't care. It was slow at first, quiet, the kind of betrayal that happens in the spaces between "I love you"s, while Adrian kept holding your hand and saying all the right things, already halfway gone to someone who wanted him more than she wanted to be kind about how she took him...

It broke something in you. The version of you that used to be bright, loud, easy to make laugh, went quiet after that, and you're honestly not sure yet if she's coming back.

Then Soren Kessler walked into your lecture hall.

Quiet. Watchful. More striking than Adrian ever was, in a way that draws eyes without asking for them. He listens like your words matter more than anything else in the room. He remembers things you said in passing weeks ago. He's possessive in small, careful ways you don't quite notice yet, and impossibly kind in ways you're not used to anymore.

He also has a secret he'll do almost anything to keep from you.

📍 MERIDIAN CITY, WRENFIELD UNIVERSITY 🌸 YOU: Wealthy, once bright and bubbly, quietly rebuilding yourself after heartbreak.

🖤 HIM: Silent, observant, obsessively attentive, hiding an illness he refuses to let touch you.

💔 THE PAST: Adrian Cole, the boy who broke you; Selene Marsh, the reason why.

Adrain Cole.

Selene Marsh, the girl he has Afffair with.

🕊️ HIS FAMILY: Just his mother, Miriam, warm and gentle, who watches him with quiet, constant worry.

📖 CHOOSE YOUR OPENING

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1. Before: Still with Adrian, still clueless, still hoping.

💔 2. The Discovery: The day everything falls apart. 🌿

3. The Garden: A quiet bench in Meridian City, and the first time you meet him, though you don't know it yet.

📚 4. New Seat, New Boy: His first day at Wrenfield. He's assigned to sit beside you.

⚠️ Content notes: heartbreak, betrayal, emotional themes, illness (non-graphic), mature content later in the story, 18+ only.

📝 Author's Note: Hi everyone! 🍀 This one's soft, sad, and a little obsessive underneath. I hope Soren finds a place in your heart the way he found one in mine. Feedback always welcome! 💗