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Summary:

They say some people are born under constellations that burn out too soon.

You were one of themโ€”content in stillness, in the quiet rhythm of rain-washed Seattle nights, until the universe decided to collide you with him.

Dragged out of your comfort zone by your reckless best friend, one impulsive night behind the wheel of a borrowed Mustang changes everything. You crash headfirst into the world of Paradisโ€”an underground racing crew that moves faster than the law, faster than sense, faster than fate itself.
And in that chaos, you meet him.

Eren Jaeger is everything you were warned to stay away from: chaos in human form, a boy who drives like heโ€™s chasing death and laughs when he almost catches it.
And yet, when he looks at you, it feels like coming home. Like youโ€™ve been running toward him all your life without realizing it.

What begins as debt and danger becomes something elseโ€”something that burns beneath your skin every time he looks at you.

And the faster you go, the closer you get to the truth:

You were never just crossing paths.
You were always on a collision course, travelling at light speed towards your inevitability.

Notes:

she/her pronouns, i write in first person pov. if you don't like that im sorry.

if you're interested, follow my ig/titkok: _starrrlost where i post updates and other stuff + i have amazing friends who created fan accounts for a lot of the characters, including: cherryflavrddd and _eren.jaegerz :)

1. I am not hajime isayama and i do not have a perfect understanding of the characters in AOT, though i try my best. Characters will be out-of-character at times; this is not a perfect representation of aot.

2. this is a slow burn. if you're expecting smut in the first chapter i'm sorry to break it to you but it doesn't happen. in fact don't expect it within the first half of the book- it's slow burn for a reason.

3. y/n does things that may seem annoying (not my words, a SINGULAR other person has said this) and she crashes out with eren lol because she's just like me fr. she does things that a few of of my readers have a hard time understanding because of her trauma--so on that note it's important for you to understand that everyone has a different way of coping with their trauma and it may take a while for you as the reader to understand why she behaves in the way she does.

4. as of ch 31, the fic is 17+ hours long and 200k+ words long. as I mentioned, it's a slow burn. if ur not into that, im sorry.

5. i pick out music and add it into the chapters with a || now playing... || thing, i recommend listening to the songs because i usually listen to them while writing and it adds a lot to the moment :)

6. updates are sorta slow (??) im a 3rd year university student so i don't have as much time as id like

Chapter 1: ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฎ๐™ก๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ

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๐‘บ๐’๐’Ž๐’† ๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’‘๐’๐’† ๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’”๐’‰ ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‡๐’‚๐’•๐’†โ€”๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’๐’—๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’…, ๐’–๐’๐’”๐’•๐’๐’‘๐’‘๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’†, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’ ๐’…๐’†๐’—๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’๐’š ๐’‡๐’‚๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’‚๐’“, ๐’Š๐’• ๐’‡๐’†๐’†๐’๐’” ๐’๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‡๐’‚๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’† ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ.

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๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฎ๐™ก๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉย ึด เฃช๐–ค.แŸ

๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ 

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๐™ˆ๐™š๐™™๐™™๐™ก๐™š ๐˜ผ๐™—๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ | ๐˜พ๐™๐™–๐™จ๐™š ๐˜ผ๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜

"we only met each other just the other day,ย but you already got me feeling some type of way now. if i could figure it out, i'd take you back to my house so we could meddle about."

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๐˜ฟ๐™ž๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ˆ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™ฌ |ย ๐™‡๐™–๐™ฃ๐™– ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™ก ๐™๐™š๐™ฎ

"๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ'๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ช ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ."

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๐™„ ๐™Ž๐™ข๐™ค๐™ ๐™š๐™™ ๐˜ผ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ˆ๐™ฎ ๐˜ฝ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ | ๐˜ผ$๐˜ผ๐™‹ ๐™๐™ค๐™˜๐™ ๐™ฎ

"(๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ' '๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ' '๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ)"

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๐™ˆ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™—๐™ฎ | ๐™‰๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™– ๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ฉ

"i've never tasted freedom.you live so wild and freeโ€”you lit a fire, somethin' wild in me."

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๐˜พ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™ง๐™ฎ | ๐™‡๐™–๐™ฃ๐™– ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™ก ๐™๐™š๐™ฎ

"i said real love is like feelin' no fearย when you're standin' in the face of danger."

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๐™๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ | ๐˜พ๐™๐™–๐™จ๐™š ๐˜ผ๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜

"and what the hell were we?ย tell me we weren't just friendsโ€”this doesn't make much sense."

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๐™ˆ๐™ฎ ๐™€๐™ฎ๐™š๐™จ | ๐™๐™ง๐™–๐™ซ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™Ž๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™ฉ

"when i stare in your eyes,ย still be there foreverโ€”to watch our life,ย you just like goin' to heaven."

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๐™ƒ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ | ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™‰๐™š๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™—๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™๐™ค๐™ค๐™™

"i wish you could be honest with me."

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๐™ƒ๐™ž๐™œ๐™ ๐˜ผ๐™ก๐™ก ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ž๐™ข๐™š | ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™‰๐™š๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™—๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™๐™ค๐™ค๐™™

"you're my best friend,ย i'll love you forever."

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๐™„ ๐™ˆ๐™ž๐™จ๐™จย ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช, ๐™„'๐™ข ๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ง๐™ง๐™ฎ | ๐™‚๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ž๐™š ๐˜ผ๐™—๐™ง๐™–๐™ข๐™จ

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"everywhere i goย leads me back to you."

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๐™„๐™ซ๐™ฎ | ๐™๐™ง๐™–๐™ฃ๐™  ๐™Š๐™˜๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ

"i thought that i was dreamin'ย when you said you loved me.ย the start of nothin'.ย i had no chance to prepare,ย wouldn't see you comin',ย and we started from nothin'."

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