Some connections don't happen by choice. They happen by seating chart. Eva Roze has always believed in love — the quiet, aching kind she watches from the outside. Couples in the garden, old strangers still teasing each other after decades, hands that reach for each other without thinking. She notices all of it, even when no one notices her. After a first year spent invisible — last bench, no friends, the wrong kind of rumors — Eva starts her second year hoping for something different. What she gets is Sera: warm, easy, unexpectedly kind, and impossible not to like. And then there's Christian Ray — new to her mornings, impossible to ignore, and completely unaware of the way his voice undoes her in five seconds flat. Eva doesn't know if Sera and Christian are just friends or something more. She doesn't know why a stupid seating rotation suddenly has her heart racing. And she definitely doesn't know how to stop noticing him. All she knows is that this year already feels different. A slow-burn college romance about first friendships, first glances, and falling for someone you didn't choose to sit next to.