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the butterfly effect.
What if the shy, defeated girl never met the gentle, yet heartbroken boy at the bar that night in a strange twist of events that no one could have ever predicted.

The girl that found herself trapped alone in her room more nights than not, and the boy who couldn't stand the idea of being alone with his thoughts when the sun went down, who would rather drown his sorrows in anything else - both eerily alike in that sense

What if the shy, defeated girl never pulled herself out of bed that night by the skin of her teeth, never showed up to that bar in her pjs at midnight, and never sat down next to him

What if she didn't stay for that one drink?

They had known each other for years, had once even considered each other friends; she had hosted game nights in her old apartments living room and he'd been one she'd reached out to when she herself...