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Clarke Griffin isn't looking for anything - or anyone. Fresh off a breakup and buried beneath an artist's block, she's sworn herself to solitude, celibacy and a long recovery process that mostly involves ignoring her feelings.
Then she walks into a board game store on the edge of town and meets Lexa Woods.Lexa doesn't do people. She barely does conversation. But there's something about Clarke - her voice, her hands, the way she sees the world - that slips past every defense Lexa's spent years building.
They become friends. Kind of. Movie nights turn into art critiques, and shared silence becomes something safer than words. Clarke keeps telling herself that she's not into girls. And meanwhile, Lexa keeps reminding herself that Clarkes totally unobtainable. Nor should she want anything in the first place.
Tension simmers where truth can't go, and sometimes, things can only stay unspoken for so long.