And that, perhaps, is the most terrifying thing of all.
Her first love was Ethan, a quiet boy who sketched galaxies in the margins of his calculus homework. They were the odd-duck power couple of their small Oregon town: her, the daughter of a contractor who taught her that anything built could be demolished; him, the son of a librarian who believed stories could save lives. onlykaylaowens - Kayla Owens SExIEST
For the first time, Kayla tried. She talked about her father’s fading memory. She admitted that she was afraid of being forgotten. She let Simone see her cry—once, in the dark, after a nightmare where she was building a bridge that led nowhere. And that, perhaps, is the most terrifying thing of all
Simone was the earthquake. A visiting professor in architectural history, she was sharp-tongued, brilliant, and wore emerald-green glasses that made Kayla’s carefully structured world tilt. They met at a faculty mixer—Kayla reluctantly attending, Simone holding court about the erotics of brutalism. For the first time, Kayla tried