Almostmine Stories

I was never the girl they chose. I was the girl they almost chose. When the boy I never got over comes back into my life already belonging to someone else, everything I buried starts to surface. Old feelings. Old wounds. Old "what ifs." He came back when I finally learned how to live without him. Loving him was easy. Not being his was the hard part. Loving him means waiting. Letting him go means losing him again. And this time, I don't know which hurts more..

Two unlikely souls who find themselves drawn together in ways neither of them expected. Eli Cruz is the easygoing troublemaker everyone knows-funny, reckless, and always skating by without much thought for tomorrow. Mara, on the other hand, is the new girl who keeps her walls high and her past buried deep, hoping no one looks too closely. What starts as casual banter and stolen moments soon grows into something fragile but powerful-late-night talks, quiet laughs, and the kind of connection that makes the world feel less heavy. But love doesn't come easy when secrets, reputations, and fears of heartbreak threaten to pull them apart. It's a story about first love, trust, and the pain of almost having something real-until life gets in the way. Because sometimes the people who feel like they're meant to be yours... are only ever almost mine.