“They do,” her mother agreed. “But they also affect each other’s gravity. They pull. They push. They make each other’s orbits wobble. It’s not always neat. But it’s not a waste of time, either. It’s how solar systems are born.”

She hasn’t had a real crush herself—not yet, anyway. But she’s already building a map of what love should feel like: kind, patient, and a little bit magical. To Veronica, every love story is a promise that someday, someone will look at her the way the hero looks at the heroine right before the final credits roll.

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