How far can healing stretch before it starts to break you again?
Seventeen-year-old Kiana Matthews isn’t searching for love—she’s too focused on her studies, her future, and keeping her emotions tightly in check. Beautiful, intelligent, and a little emotionally unavailable, she’s the kind of girl who has it all together... or so it seems.
But when she’s assigned a new tutor—Kevin Daniels, a 24-year-old recovering alcoholic with a shadowed past—the lines between duty, vulnerability, and something deeper begin to blur. Kevin isn’t just another adult trying to make ends meet. Haunted by the trauma of discovering his mother’s lifeless body at fourteen, he’s spent years hiding behind alcohol and excuses. Now seven months sober, he’s trying to rebuild himself—slowly, painfully, honestly.
Their lives couldn’t be more different, yet something begins to form between them: not quite friendship, not quite anything else.
“The Lines Between Us” is a story that’s close to my heart.
It’s about two people—one in the beginning stages of life, the other quietly trying to rebuild his—who meet in the space between duty and healing. Kiana and Kevin aren’t meant to fall into anything. They’re just meant to learn. But life rarely listens.
This isn’t a story of fast romance or clichés. It’s slow, sometimes heavy, often tender. It’s about what happens when you finally let someone see the parts of yourself you’ve hidden—even the broken ones.
If you’ve ever struggled with guilt, grief, or the quiet loneliness of growing up too fast… this one’s for you.
Thank you for reading. This story is still unfolding, and I hope you’ll walk with me as I write it—line by line.
— A.A.
“The Lines Between Us” is a story that’s close to my heart.
It’s about two people—one in the beginning stages of life, the other quietly trying to rebuild his—who meet in the space between duty and healing. Kiana and Kevin aren’t meant to fall into anything. They’...
