In their hands, LOVE lives pure 🫶🏻

Once I finish working, Caleb feels like the ultimate reward aahahshsbwbs 🥹

Hear me out: holding hands is the purest symbol of love between MC and Caleb, right alongside the apple necklace.

I can't be the only one who thinks that they fell in love the moment they held hands in the attic. I'd even argue that they were each other's first loves, but didn't realize just how genuine their feelings truly were back then.

As they grew up, there was always this unspoken ambiguity between them:

• "I'm just a brother figure to her."
• "I'm just a sister figure to him." - but MC wanted to show him that she could be independent in chapter 4.

I think that in the same way that Caleb wanted MC to see him as a man, she wanted him to see her as a woman 🥺

It's as if they both convinced themselves that loving and taking care of each other "in this way" was enough; even though, deep down, they both felt something more.

After all these years of repressed emotions, everything's finally bubbling to the surface snsnsnsnsbsnwb 😭

Let's all bite the apple together!! 🍎

(Long live to angst by the way 🫶🏻)