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At an all-boys school where noise seems to never end, Ivy is the only girl in class, and she's spent the last year secretly in love with the quietest boy in the room.
Simon never fights for attention like the others. While Jack causes chaos, Maurice narrates everyone's lives, and Ralph struggles to survive their classroom insanity, Simon stays calm in the middle of it all, watching more than he speaks, noticing things nobody else does. Especially Ivy.
Shy, observant, and terrified of rejection, Ivy keeps her feelings hidden behind nervous smiles and quiet glances across the classroom. But when late afternoons in the library slowly turns into lingering conversations, shared secrets, and soft moments neither of them expected, she begins to realize something impossible. Simon has been noticing her too.
What starts as awkward study sessions becomes something gentler and deeper, a quiet kind of love built through honesty, comfort, and all the little moments that matter most.
Set between noisy classrooms, chaotic friends, after-school sunsets, and stolen moments of peace, The Calm in the noise is a soft highschool romance about being understood, being chosen, and finding calm in the middle of chaos.