They sat as strangers on day one—she with freckles and overdue courage, he a quiet, impossible-to-forget silhouette at the edge of the classroom. Jayla Ashford didn’t want distractions: she came for grades, not daydreams. Then Tobias Davenport sat beside her and everything complicated itself. A spilled notebook, a borrowed pencil, a rescue at the seaside—small collisions turned into tutoring sessions, late-night walks, and a steady string of gestures that said more than words. Friends laughed, a loud best friend schemed, a protective older brother meddled, and a childhood friend returned like a rumor. Jayla keeps a list of practical things to fix her future: exams, models, applications. Tobias keeps quiet notes and builds planes that fly where words won’t go. This is a slow-burning high school romance about math problems and model planes, about getting the answer right in exams and the timing right with hearts. When the seat map threatens to change and exams force choices, who will stay? Who will move? And what happens when the person beside you becomes the place you want to land?
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