Esta história foi originalmente pensada para o desafio 20 do perfil WattpadRomanceLP , onde tínhamos de misturar romance com as estrelas. Mas não me consegui inscrever a tempo, por isso não estou a participar.

Contudo, não vou deixar de publicar por causa disso. O conto iria receber uma expansão quando o prazo terminasse. O lado positivo de não estar a concorrer é que não preciso de me conter!

Espero que gostem e que se apaixonem pelo plot tanto quanto eu! 

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(não gosto de fazer isto, mas vai ter que ser)

Este livro tem romance maioritariamente hétero. Porém, fiz questão de o rechear, na medida do que era sensato e me servia enquanto enredo, de representatividade. Isto inclui diversas personagens LGBTQIA+.

Por isso, tenham atenção ao ódio. Podem sempre abandonar a leitura se se sentirem desconfortáveis.

Mais de metade deste conto foi escrito com a ajuda de músicas. Aliás, grande parte desta ideia veio a partir destas músicas, que tocaram em sequência no meu telemóvel enquanto eu ponderava participar neste concurso. Ainda que entretanto, com a expansão desta história, a playlist tenha crescido, existe um conjunto de músicas originais que colocaram tudo em marcha.

Essas vou deixá-las aqui, juntamento com os trechos que mais me inspiraram. As outras vão parar à playlist do Spotify, cujo link estará no meu perfil e nos comentários deste parágrafo, para quem estiver interessado em ouvir.

✪ P L A Y L I S T  D O  C O N T O ✪

Gravity - John Mayer

https://youtu.be/Fo4746XZgw8

"Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh, I'll never know

What makes this man, with all the love that his heart can stand

Dream of ways to throw it all away

(...)
It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees"

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Only When I sleep - The Corrs

https://youtu.be/MnyW9wC4cvQ

"You're only just a dream boat
Sailing in my head
You swim my secret oceans
Of coral blue and red
Your smell is incense burning
Your touch is silken yet
It reaches through my skin
Moving from within

(...)

But it's only when I sleep
See you in my dreams
Got me spinning round and round
Turning upside down
But I only hear you breathe
Somewhere in my sleep

(...)

And when I wake from slumber
Your shadow's disappeared
Your breath is just a sea mist
Surrounding my body
I'm working through the daytime
But when it's time to rest
I'm lying in my bed
Listening to my breath
Falling from the edge"

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Baptized - Daughtry

https://youtu.be/GNw7L_hF91Y

"It's safe to say I'm lost,
Without you in my arms,
So I call your name and I pray you might,
Come and watch over me like the pale moonlight,
Until the sun comes back around.

Take me down by the water
Pull me in until I see the light
Let me drown in you, honey
In your love I wanna be baptized.
(...)

And the days and nights are cold,
Without your body to hold,
So I close my eyes hoping you'll appear,
Cause it feels like grace every time you're near, yeah,
Don't leave, until the sun comes back around"

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Close - Nick Jonas feat. Tove Lo

https://youtu.be/XgJFqVvb2Ws

"'Cause if I want you, and I want you, babe

Ain't going backwards, won't ask for space

'Cause space is just a word made up by someone who's afraid to get too

Close

(...)

I want you close, and close ain't close enough, no

Oh man, oh man

I am not really known for ever being speechless

But now somehow

My words roll off my tongue right onto your lips

I'm keeping cool while you keep smiling

Saying all the things I'm thinking

Oh man, oh man
I am like you so I want proof of what you're feeling"

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Gravity - Daughtry

https://youtu.be/FqN6qWMTtzw

"I need an anchor, my gravity

Even though I'm not under the same sun when I fall
Don't have to be miles apart if you're here in my heart
I can feel your love from a different place, that's okay
Don't have to be miles apart if you're here in my heart
Embrace the strange, close to sane
I don't belong here anyway
Passing by or visiting
And out the gate, you're soothing"

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Forbidden Colours - Ryuichi Sakamoto

https://youtu.be/kf0HYeQp760