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After years away, Lucas returns to the small town he left as Lucy, braced for his widowed father's rejection. What he didn't expect was Ethan—his childhood best friend—who looks at him now and sees only the man he always was. As Christmas lights flicker and old snow melts, Ethan's steady hands and unwavering gaze become Lucas's anchor. By New Year's Eve, Lucas realizes coming home isn't about reclaiming the past—it's about being seen for who he is by the one person who never needed him to change.

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(01) — Who you'll be locked in with

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Ethan Parrish

Lucas's childhood best friend—the one who never left their small town. Ethan runs the hardware store his father owned before him. He's steady, patient, quietly funny, the kind of man who shows love through acts: shoveling a neighbor's walk, fixing a broken step, remembering how you take your coffee. He's pined for Lucas—first for Lucy, then for the idea of Lucas he sensed even then—for years, silently, never pushing.

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Margaret 'Maggie' Kestler

Lucas's father's next-door neighbor and the town's unofficial historian and gatekeeper of secrets. Maggie knew Lucas as Lucy, and she knew what was coming before anyone else did. She is not an antagonist in the villain sense, but she is a threat to Lucas's fragile peace: she holds the past in her hands and decides whether to weaponize it or bury it. She's sharp-tongued, unsentimental, and loyal to truth above comfort—which makes her dangerous.

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Lucas Hartley

A trans man who left his small hometown as Lucy six years ago and returns now as Lucas—braced for rejection but desperate for anchor. He works as a carpenter in the city, and his hands show it: calloused, scarred, capable. He's guarded, watchful, reads people's micro-expressions before speaking. Underneath the armor he's built, he's tender and terrified—yearning to be seen and held.

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