The Ghost Girl Who Sits Next to Me in Class

The Ghost Girl Who Sits Next to Me in ClassShe was the girl everyone wanted to be seen with. Now she's the one nobody can see at all - except her.Aoi has spent her whole life perfecting the art of being invisible - third row from the window, nose in a book, unnoticed by teachers and classmates alike. It's a lonely kind of fluency, but it's hers. Until the empty desk beside her stops being empty.Yuzuki was everything Aoi never was: swim team captain, effortlessly magnetic, a name carved into desks like a trophy. She had a hundred friends and said one true thing in her whole life - or so she claims. Now she's a quiet gray shape in an afternoon classroom, tethered to the one place no one ever thought to really look at her, waiting for someone who finally will.What starts as impossible curiosity unfolds into something neither girl expected: late afternoons spent trading secrets across the gap between the living and the gone, a friendship that turns, slowly and then all at once, into love. Aoi learns the girl beneath the legend - the loneliness hiding behind every hallway laugh, the accident nobody was angry enough about, the aching want to be seen instead of just looked at. And Yuzuki learns, maybe for the first time in either of her lives, what it feels like to be wanted for the boring, ordinary, unedited parts of herself.Tender, funny, and quietly devastating, The Ghost Girl Who Sits Next to Me in Class is a love story that refuses to let death be the end of the sentence - a tale of two girls learning that being truly seen might be the closest thing to magic either of them will ever need.Includes bonus scenes: awkward flirting lessons, disastrous ghost cooking attempts, and the small, stubborn joys of loving someone the world already said goodbye to.