Harriet_WP
Ysabel has spent years loving Felix in silence.
And somehow, somewhere between the walks home and conversations that lingered longer than they should have, it stopped feeling impossible.
She began to think he might feel it too.
Then Felix disappears into the forest.
When he returns, the village celebrates. He says he got lost. He says he got lonely. And everyone is so relieved to have him back that no one thinks to question the strange look in his eyes.
No one except Ysabel.
Because Felix was changing before he vanished.
But not like this.
Not into someone who stands too close. Someone who watches her with unsettling devotion. Someone who says all the things she's spent years wanting to hear-and somehow makes her wish he wouldn't.
Then people start disappearing.
And the more Felix smiles at her, the more certain she becomes of one terrible truth:
The boy she was falling for came back from the forest.
But something else came back with him.
Or maybe it came back as him.
Because every time he smiles, she can't shake the feeling that something else is smiling back.
And it's starting to smile wider.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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