Aoi never thought love could be a diagnosis.
Raised by strict religious parents, Aoi spent his life hiding the truth they refused to see — that he’s gay, and he’s not sorry for it. But when he’s outed, they don’t scream. They don’t cry.
They send him away.
Evergreen Mental Health Center is cold, quiet, and full of ghosts — not the kind that haunt halls, but the kind that live inside people. Aoi expects silence. Isolation. Maybe even punishment.
What he doesn’t expect... is Kaze.
Kaze has been a patient for two years — loud, chaotic, and unpredictable. Everything Aoi isn’t. But behind Kaze’s sharp tongue and crooked smile is someone just as lost, just as bruised, and just as tired of pretending.
Thrown into a room together with nothing but shared pain and unwanted pasts, the two boys begin to unravel — and rebuild — piece by piece.
Not fixed. Not healed.
But maybe... not broken either.
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