Archive of Our Own ^beta

Summary:

Nothing ever happens here. That’s what everyone says.

The town is small, church-centered, and takes place in the 2010s. Everyone knows your parents. Everyone knows your business. Rumors travel faster than cars and never fully die.

Kris Da’costa has learned how to survive by being overlooked. Quiet. Polite. Easy to ignore. It works, until it doesn’t. Kris has a habit of pulling small, careful pranks, just enough to feel in control, never enough to get caught.

Then Sasha Stevens moves to town.

She’s loud, volatile, and impossible to ignore. She doesn’t follow the town’s rules, and she definitely doesn’t follow Kris’s. One fight in an English classroom is enough to set things in motion, dragging old wounds, buried secrets, and fragile friendships back into the open.

This is a story about small towns, bad decisions, and messy connections