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1. Caffeine and Chemistry by Mountainslostshoes

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   22 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ryland Grace/You
   • Ryland Grace/Reader
   • Ryland Grace
   • Reader
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Coffee Shops
   • Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés
   • idk if this counts as AU this could be set before the plot of PHM
   • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
   • Reader-Insert
   • Gender-Neutral Reader-Insert
   • reader works at a coffee shop
   • Age Difference
   • Teacher Ryland Grace
   • Socially Awkward Ryland Grace
   • Getting Together
   • they're both awkward but make it work okay??
   • does ordering coffee while avoiding eye contact count as flirting??
   • Grace hopes so
   • Eventual Smut
   • English Is Not the Author's First Language

   Summary

   Obligatory coffee shop ff in which both Grace and the reader are awkward but very much instantly in love which each other.

   I suck at summaries, sorry.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   5,403

   Chapters:

   3/3

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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