Chapter 120 The First Hard Day
It happened on a Thursday.
Not dramatically — nothing about it announced itself as the day the distance would hit properly. It just arrived the way difficult things arrived when you weren't expecting them — in the middle of something ordinary, without warning, before you had time to prepare.
I was i...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Wrong Room, Wrong Guy
2. Chapter 2 The Deal
3. Chapter 3 Going Public
4. Chapter 4 She Knows
5. Chapter 5 Not Supposed To Feel Like This
6. Chapter 6 The Problem With Pretending 
7. Chapter 7 Just Dinner
8. Chapter 8 The Hoodie
9. Chapter 9 Almost
10. Chapter 10 2AM
11. Chapter 11 The Rumour
12. Chapter 12 Caught
13. Chapter 13 What Kofi Said
14. Chapter 14 The Assessment
15. Chapter 15 Real
16. Chapter 16 Different Now
17. Chapter 17 Saturday
18. Chapter 18 The Thing About Trust
19. Chapter 19 The Party
20. Chapter 20 His Father
21. Chapter 21 What She Said
22. Chapter 22 Something Real
23. Chapter 23 His World
24. Chapter 24 Sunday Morning
25. Chapter 25 On The Way Back
26. Chapter 26 Almost Said
27. Chapter 27 Said
28. Chapter 28 After I Love You
29. Chapter 29 The Scholarship Review
30. Chapter 30 What Comes Next
31. Chapter 31 Keira Returns
32. Chapter 32 What Keira Knows
33. Chapter 33 Kofi's Theory
34. Chapter 34 The Photograph
35. Chapter 35 Pressure
36. Chapter 36 Daniel
37. Chapter 37 What Daniel Wants
38. Chapter 38 Keira and Daniel
39. Chapter 39 The Rumour Returns
40. Chapter 40 Loud Enough
41. Chapter 41 Daniel's Move
42. Chapter 42 Zane's Walls
43. Chapter 43 Dennise Has A Point
44. Chapter 44 The Group Project
45. Chapter 45 What Zane Said To Kofi
46. Chapter 46 The Practical
47. Chapter 47 What Daniel Did
48. Chapter 48 Kofi Steps In
49. Chapter 49 The Night Before Results
50. Chapter 50 Halfway
51. Chapter 51 Too Close
52. Chapter 52 The Argument
53. Chapter 53 After The Argument
54. Chapter 54 The Garden Again
55. Chapter 55 Ordinary
56. Chapter 56 Still Here
57. Chapter 57 The Small Things
58. Chapter 58 Closing Time
59. Chapter 59 What Stays
60. Chapter 60 Almost
61. Chapter 61 Tonight
62. Chapter 62 The Morning After
63. Chapter 63 Just Us
64. Chapter 64 What He Knows
65. Chapter 65 Slower
66. Chapter 66 His
67. Chapter 67 Enough
68. Chapter 68 What He Carries
69. Chapter 69 The Right Kind of Morning
70. Chapter 70 Last Days
71. Chapter 71 First Day Back
72. Chapter 72 Office Hours
73. Chapter 73 The Group Chat
74. Chapter 74 Established
75. Chapter 75 The Decision
76. Chapter 76 Her Voice On The Phone
77. Chapter 77 The Theory, Applied
78. Chapter 78 What He Keeps
79. Chapter 79 The Box
80. Chapter 80 Downstairs
81. Chapter 81 The Saga
82. Chapter 82 What Comes After
83. Chapter 83 The Conversation
84. Chapter 84 Research
85. Chapter 85 Confirmed
86. Chapter 86 The Email
87. Chapter 87 What Mr. Carter Said
88. Chapter 88 Logistics
89. Chapter 89 Telling People
90. Chapter 90 The Application
91. Chapter 91 The Last Practical
92. Chapter 92 Six To Eight Weeks
93. Chapter 93 Kofi's Last Theory
94. Chapter 94 Before The End
95. Chapter 95 Results
96. Chapter 96 Saturday Lunch
97. Chapter 97 Last Library Session
98. Chapter 98 The Garden, Penultimate
99. Chapter 99 The Night Before Graduation
100. Chapter 100 Graduation Day
101. Chapter 101 The Last Garden
102. Chapter 102 After
103. Chapter 103 The Botanical Gardens, Again
104. Chapter 104 The Remi's Again
105. Chapter 105 The Library, One Last Time
106. Chapter 106 Friday Morning
107. Chapter 107 Getting Ready
108. Chapter 108 The Party
109. Chapter 109 The Pool
110. Chapter 110 The Morning After The Pool
111. Chapter 111 Ten Days
112. Chapter 112 What Mr. Carter Said
113. Chapter 113 Five Days
114. Chapter 114 Four Days
115. Chapter 115 The Last Three Days
116. Chapter 116 The Day Before
117. Chapter 117 The Airport
118. Chapter 118 First Day
119. Chapter 119 He Lands
120. Chapter 120 The First Hard Day
121. Chapter 121 The New Rhythm
122. Chapter 122 Leaving Campus
123. Chapter 123 First Day Of The Program
124. Chapter 124 The Underneath Questions
125. Chapter 125 Someone New
126. Chapter 126 The Distance Version
127. Chapter 127 Mr. Carter's Sixth Document
128. Chapter 128 Five Fifty- Eight
129. Chapter 129 His London
130. Chapter 130 The Research Group
131. Chapter 131 The London Garden
132. Chapter 132 The Second Goodbye
133. Chapter 133 November
134. Chapter 134 December
135. Chapter 135 What Stays
136. Chapter 136 The Wrong Room
137. Chapter 137 Between Us
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