Mia watches Jack's loyalty plummet and chooses Ethan, whose hundred held steady.
Mia perceives a floating loyalty meter above every person. For six years her childhood sweetheart Jack displayed a perfect hundred until jealousy toward another girl caused his number to drop. She refuses to plead, instead taking up running to reclaim her own pace. The rhythm draws her to Ethan, a reserved classmate whose meter has remained an unbroken hundred since she once included him in a P.E. group. Jack shadows her routes, begs, and plots to regain her favor, but Mia no longer pursues a fading figure.
Elements
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campus with visible loyalty meters
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childhood sweethearts and quiet classmate
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jealousy erodes one score while another holds
Suited to
Readers wanting a calm look at measurable devotion and quiet self-respect.
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