HeartstringsTales
💫 Story Introduction:
They gave us ten days.
Ten days to collaborate on a groundbreaking astrobiology project that could change the way humanity sees the universe. Ten days to deliver perfection, under pressure, at NASA, with the world watching.
It should've been easy-at least for someone like her.
Dr. Iris Vale was everything I wasn't. Sunlight in sneakers. Laughter in a lab coat. The kind of person who hugged too tight and believed in the good in everyone. Head of the astrobiologist department
And me?
I was Dr. Aroura Caelum. Cold. Calculated. Closed off. A woman carved from caution, shaped by scars. I didn't do warm. I didn't do smiles. And I definitely didn't do love.
But in the silence between microscope slides and midnight equations, Iris started to chip away at the walls I'd spent years building. With every unexpected question, every joke I tried not to laugh at, she pulled me closer to the parts of myself I thought were long dead.
This wasn't supposed to be a story about healing. Or falling.
But somehow... it became both.
It does not have any heartbreaks or intense seperation. The story just captures their adorable sweet journey navigating their feelings!!!!!