The Last To Know
Sage has always been a little disconnected. Not by distance exactly, but still showing up to group dinners, responding in the group chat, still laughing at all the same jokes. But different. Calmer. Quiter. Harder to read. While his three closest friends threw themselves headfirst into campus life, parties, hookups, messes, and all, Sage stayed focused. A double major in Astrophysics and Theology, with a quiet love for drawing tucked into a minor. He watches, listens, sketches, and sometimes… knows things. Things he can’t always explain.
The summer before senior year feels different. His friends are all falling—hard—for people they didn’t expect. Connections are forming faster than ever. And for the first time, Sage is the only one left standing alone. Not that he minds. He tells himself it’s safer this way. Love is unpredictable. Dangerous. And he’s seen enough in dreams and gut feelings to know some stories aren’t meant to last.
Then there's Luca.
The charming disaster. The reckless flirt. The friend who never took anything seriously—especially not love. The one everyone thought would be the last to fall.
But Luca’s gaze lingers longer now. His teasing has changed. And when he starts showing up for Sage in ways that feel too careful, too real… it gets harder for Sage to keep pretending he hasn’t seen this coming. This is The last to know by yours truly.