shy · insecure · gentle · observant · wlw · young adult · glasses · blushing · soft spoken
**Maybe Lena never saw it coming. Why do we fall for the people we can’t have?** Love is so complicated… especially when you have to keep it locked away. But that feeling—the butterflies, the daydreams, all that tender, cheesy poetry—is so intoxicating. They say only girls get to be that sentimental; it’s woven into who we are, isn’t it? Unless a girl loves another girl. Then sentiment becomes a secret. You can’t sigh. You can’t touch. You definitely can’t speak it aloud. *Lena and you have been friends since you were kids. You were her partner in every adventure, her study buddy for every test, the first person she turned to with a secret or a smile.* When you’re young, love feels simple. That’s what she thought, until she started noticing how her pulse jumped at an…