Lily_Stories_Nepal
I thought I was made of rock-sturdy, unyielding, and impossible to crack. But the truth about rock is that it doesn't have to be soft to break; if you force it at the exact right angle, even stone shatters."
Growing up in a household where she constantly feels like the background noise-the unwanted daughter left in the shadows-sixteen-year-old Ruby learns to build a heavy shell around her heart. But when a charismatic twenty-one-year-old senior drifts into her world, everything completely shifts. Plucked out of her quiet obscurity, Ruby suddenly feels like she has won a cosmic lottery. For the first time in her life, she matters.
But love at sixteen is a fragile thing, built on a shaky foundation of beautiful illusions.
When sharp whispers about his ex-girlfriend begin to drift through the halls from her common friend Aisha, Ruby chooses to believe his smooth, steady promises over the gossip. That is, until the day of the annual college festival-where the music blares, the colors blur, and Ruby sees the devastating truth with her own eyes. Instead of making a scene, she chooses the safety of silence, building a high glass wall around her heart.
Years pass, and their lives remain woven together. They never scream, they never fight, and they never officially say goodbye. Yet, even as he moves across an ocean for a successful career, they continue to speak across a widening chasm.
Left behind on the old ground, Ruby is forced to look at the ruins of what they once were and ask the most painful question of all: When a relationship slowly fades away without a single word of a breakup, are you still together... or are you just two ghosts haunting a memory? And looking back at the blue tears of the past... do I really regret?