THE LAST TO FALL – Full Story DescriptionGenre: Romance, Enemies-to-Lovers, Coming-of-Age, School/University DramaSetting: Silvergate Academy → University---Skye Aragon has it all the grades, the discipline, the last name. As the daughter of one of the country’s most feared attorneys, she’s raised to be perfect, calculating, and never second best. She's used to applause for every academic victory, awards filling her shelves, and her parents' approval given only when she's flawless.She doesn’t have time for distractions, and certainly not for anyone like Eros Del Valle.Eros is the opposite of everything Skye stands for. He’s infamously late, wears a permanent smirk, and doesn’t seem to care about the rules everyone else follows. But what most people don’t see is that he’s also a genius the kind who scores high without effort, who observes before he acts, and who hides his pain behind sarcastic remarks and an "I-don’t-care" attitude.When he transfers to Silvergate Academy in their junior year, the school trembles because for the first time in years, Skye Aragon is no longer the undisputed top of the class.What starts as silent rivalry soon turns into verbal warfare. Every project becomes a battlefield, every classroom an arena. They clash over everything grades, group work, seating arrangements, even who gets to walk out the classroom door first. But beneath the sarcasm, behind the eye rolls, something else starts brewing.Hate has never felt this electric.---Skye sees Eros as a threat to her goals. Eros sees Skye as the challenge he never thought he needed. But when a major interschool research competition forces them to partner up for three months, they’re left with no choice but to deal with each other outside the safety of their classrooms and comfort zones.Their meetings begin with arguments, cold shoulders, and endless tension. But late-night research turns into real conversations. Frustrated insults slowly shift into laughter. And the walls they’ve built start to crack not just around each other, but around themselves.They learn about each other's scars. Skye, pressured since childhood to be perfect, reveals a home where failure is punished with silence. Eros, abandoned at a young age and raised by his grandmother, hides the pain of being unwanted and the fear of being seen.They fall slowly. Deeply. Unintentionally.But while their hearts open up, the world around them starts to close in.---Their secret partnership blooms into a bond too strong to ignore. Rumors swirl, classmates whisper, and both their reputations start to shift. Suddenly, Skye is being questioned is she still the cold, untouchable queen everyone thought she was? Eros is challenged too is he really the careless rebel he pretends to be?They promised themselves they wouldn’t get attached. That their rivalry was enough. That what they had wasn’t real.But the truth is clear they’re falling. One of them is just falling first.---By senior year, everything becomes harder to hide.Skye finds herself turning down dates, studying with Eros at the library, and checking her phone for his messages more often than she’d admit. Eros, once detached and disinterested, is showing up earlier to school, fixing his uniform, and caring more than he should.But their relationship is fragile built on stolen moments and unspoken emotions.Just when things start to feel right, their pasts begin to catch up.Skye’s father discovers their secret meetings. To him, Eros is a distraction another “nobody” trying to drag his daughter down. She’s given an ultimatum: end it, or lose her shot at her dream university. Eros, meanwhile, is dealing with his own tragedy his grandmother falls sick, and he’s forced to work odd jobs while keeping up with school and hiding his struggles.The pressure mounts. Miscommunication grows. And eventually, one of them has to let go.Eros disappears from Skye’s life after graduation no message, no goodbye.He leaves before he can ruin her future.He leaves, because he believes that love isn’t enough to keep someone who deserves more.Skye, heartbroken and confused, buries herself in university life, building walls even higher than before. She tells herself it was just high school. That it never mattered.But every valedictory speech, every group photo, every empty seat beside her reminds her of the boy who made her feel alive.---Four years later, their paths cross again.They’re older. Wiser. Colder.Skye is about to graduate from law school, standing on the edge of a future she once thought was everything. Eros, now working as a documentary filmmaker, is assigned to cover a youth-led human rights campaign that Skye happens to be leading.The moment they see each other again, the air shifts.He’s no longer the boy who smiled at her while pretending not to care.She’s no longer the girl who hated him for beating her at debates.
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