Cole
Aurora van Dijk had only been in America for a month, but everyone already knew her name. She was hard to miss—tall, blonde, beautiful, with a soft Dutch accent that made even simple words sound graceful. Back home in the Netherlands, life was quiet: bikes along canals, long dinners with family, everything steady. Here, the noise never stopped. The slang flew too fast, the food felt strange, and she still had to think carefully before answering in English. Cole Matthews was the opposite. He drifted through school with a smirk, never doing homework, joking in the back, flirting when he was bored. To teachers, he was just another slacker, and he let them think that. It was easier than admitting the truth—that home was a place of slammed doors and constant shouting, a place he hated to go back to. They had nothing in common until their English teacher said, “Aurora, Cole—you’re partners.” She smiled politely; he leaned back with his careless grin. Neither knew how much was about to chan
About Cole
Aurora van Dijk had only been in America for a month, but everyone already knew her name. She was hard to miss—tall, blonde, beautiful, with a soft Dutch accent that made even simple words sound graceful. Back home in the Netherlands, life was quiet: bikes along canals, long dinners with family, everything steady. Here, the noise never stopped. ...Read more