When Grade 12 student Aya gets transferred to a new section, she’s forced to sit beside the boy everyone warns her about. Liam, the silent seatmate who never talks, never smiles, and never works with anyone.He’s always late.Always alone.Always staring out the window as if he’s somewhere else.But the more time Aya spends beside him, the more she notices the strange, quiet things he does:He gives her his extra pen without saying a word.He pushes her desk closer when she falls asleep.He defends her during a group activity when no one else would.Everyone says he’s trouble.But Aya begins to see the truth, Liam isn’t dangerous.He’s hurting.And she’s the first person who’s ever tried to understand him.A slow-burn high school romance about two opposite seatmates who find comfort in the last place they expected each other.