The timestamp in the corner of his browser mocked him. Late enough for bad decisions. Early enough to still undo them.
And for once, he didn't look back.
He hadn't meant to type it. Not really. Or maybe he had meant it for weeks, and tonight was just the night the dam broke. Searching for- lily rader arya fae in-All Categ...
Arya nodded, picking at a loose thread on the couch. "The worst part isn't the comments. It's the searches. Someone types our names together, and they think they're finding a fantasy. But we're real. We've fought over a boy. We've cried in each other's cars. We've had to explain to our mothers why our names are permanently attached to each other on the internet." The timestamp in the corner of his browser mocked him
He clicked a video result—not the content itself, but a "behind the scenes" interview from a site called The Industry Diaries . And for once, he didn't look back