Lucien's discovery

s, and late nights in the engineering labs. It was structured, predictable, and exact

hunched over textbooks. Lucien had just finished an exhausting financial analysis assignment and decided to take a br

reaks in her dark hair, wearing a leather jacket and ripped jeans, scaling the brick wall as if it were

doing?" Lucien mutte

ain," someone bes

y with a skateboard under his arm. "She's

ook away from the daredevil now

rugged. "Beca

ng moment, then leapt-arms outstretched, body twisting mid-air. She landed on a lower roofto

alculating risks, ensuring every decision was logical and beneficial. What he had just wi

type he was working on. But his mind kept drifting back to the girl on the rooftop. Who wa

me sooner tha

as on campus, buried in a book on machine learning,

ho was watching m

was even more striking-sharp eyes, a mischievous grin, and an aura of untamed ener

inked. "I

table. "When I climbed the admi

throat. "I wa

uninhibited sound. "Conc

genuinely amused. "Why do you do stuff like

n her hand. "Why do you spend all your t

. "That's not

You live in your head. I live in the moment. But at the end of th

no respon

moment, then grinned. "You ne

t the nicknam

old train tracks

esitated

ou're curious. And I want to see if

d off, leaving Lucie

he air was crisp, and the sound of crickets filled the silence. He wasn't sure why he had come. Maybe it was because no one had ev

hink you'

g, her leather jacket slung over one

ome on, we're g

g shadows. Lucien was hyper-aware of every step, every possible da

ng along the edge of the metal rail like a tight

"Choosing to study engineer

at's not a risk. T

It was a big

ver done something completely reckless? Something that made

ated, then s

parkled. "Let'

, she grabbed his han

what ar

" she shouted o

d blurring around him. For the first time in his life, he wasn't thinking

the edge of a cliff overlooking a lake. Moana was

ing her arms, "is what i

alculating, ensuring everything was controlled. But standing there, with the wind in h

to Moana.

ed. "Now,

widened. "Ar

you don't take the leap, you'll ne

creamed at him to walk away. But f

reath, he grabb

hey j

changed e

ices and avoiding unnecessary risks. But Moana Chavez had shown him something diff

at the stars, he realized that his carefull