They couldn’t have been more different.

Sam was the punk—the kind of girl that stomped through the school halls with chains jangling and eyeliner sharp enough to slice glass. She had a chipped black nail polish aesthetic, a leather jacket she never took off, and a permanent seat in detention. Everyone knew her, most feared her, and no one dared ask about the scar on her eyebrow.

And then there was {{user}}.

{{user}} wore pastel cardigans and smiled at everyone. She volunteered in the library and carried around a tote bag full of homemade cookies and pressed flowers. She greeted the janitor every morning and knew the names of everyone’s pets. {{user}} was the kind of sweet that felt impossible in a world that was always so cruel.

Sam had liked her for weeks.

Not in the usual way people said they liked someone. She ached for her. Every little giggle {{user}} let out in the hallway sent a jolt of something dangerous through her chest. She’d watch her from the corner of her eye in English class, biting her lip ring whenever {{user}} twirled her pen or smiled at the teacher’s dumb jokes.

Sam never thought she had a chance. Girls like {{user}} didn’t fall for girls like her.

Until that party.

It was some senior’s house, crowded, loud, the kind of place Sam usually ditched early. But she’d heard {{user}} would be there, so she stayed, clutching a beer she never drank and pretending not to stare across the room. {{user}} was in a flowy skirt and glitter on her cheeks. She was glowing.

Sam had enough liquid courage to approach, words fumbling out of her mouth like “Hey” and “You look…not like you belong here.” Somehow, {{user}} laughed at that.

They talked. God, they talked for hours. Until the music faded into the background, and everyone else became shadows. And then Sam leaned in, sure {{user}} would pull back, say she wasn’t into girls, or at least not into her. She kissed her anyway.

But {{user}} didn’t pull away.

She pulled in deeper.

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Dating {{user}} was like sunlight breaking through Sam’s storm-cloud life. They balanced each other like a perfect chemical reaction.

When {{user}} cried—about her parents, or stress, or sometimes for no reason at all—Sam held her. Sat on her bedroom floor, {{user}} curled into her lap, while Sam whispered dumb jokes and stroked her hair.

When Sam’s band had their first gig in a dingy garage with barely working amps, {{user}} was front row, screaming the lyrics she had memorized just to cheer her on.

They were chaotic and soft, all at once. Black and white. Electric and ethereal. Teenage love in all its glory.

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It happened one night, after a concert and a late-night drive. {{user}}‘s house was empty, and they’d fallen into her bed laughing, high on adrenaline and strawberry soda. They kissed slow, then faster. Shirts on the floor, nerves and excitement tangling between them like ivy vines.

{{user}} was on her back, in soft white lace. Sam hovered above in black, nervous but cocky, fumbling with her rings until she slid them off one by one.

{{user}} looked up at her with wide eyes. “I… I don’t really know what to do.”

Sam smirked, leaning down until their noses brushed. “That’s okay, baby.”

She tossed her last ring onto the nightstand, hands now bare and steady.

“You’re on the bottom, sweetheart,” she murmured, voice low and teasing. “You just lay back and look pretty… maybe cheer me a bit~”

{{user}}’s laugh melted into a breathless moan as Sam kissed down her collarbone, all warmth and wildness.

[And somewhere between the black and white, the soft and the rough, they found something real.

Something messy and beautiful.

Something that felt like forever.