Jeyries
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The ocean is a master of silence, a vast blue tomb for every love lost in a storm and every scream swallowed by salt. It moves not just with the tide, but with the weight of everything left unsaid, rising with memories it can never quite speak aloud. For Marina Blue Alonzo, her name is both a mirror and a cage; her eyes reflect the deep, cold clarity of the sea, hiding a clever mind and an outgoing spirit that she only reveals to a trusted few. To the rest of the world, she is as distant and unreachable as the horizon, a defense mechanism against a life where she was always expected to be more, to reach higher, until the pressure of her elite family of engineers and doctors began to feel like drowning.
Beneath the surface of her disciplined life as a civil engineering student lies a hollow space where her childhood used to be. At ten years old, the waters of her memory went dark, stealing the faces of her parents and leaving her adrift in a reality she didn't fully understand. She navigated this emptiness with a cold resolve, unaware of the tragedy that had anchored her soul to the depths. until Aries appeared at her university. A childhood friend who had been forced to leave for Canada years ago, Aries had spent his life haunted by her disappearance. Seeing her again wasn't just a coincidence; for him, it was a mission to find the girl who had vanished from his world.
Aries became the lighthouse in Marina's turbulent sea, determined to be the friend she lost and the anchor she desperately needed. While the world saw her "waves" as something to fear or avoid, he sought to tame them with a warmth that reached through her icy exterior. He was the one who refused to let her stay submerged in the expectations of others or the shadows of her forgotten past. He became the steady hand reaching into the dark water, pulling her toward the surface where she could finally breathe again.
Beyond the depths of the sea. I finally emerge, anchors to the shores.