I stood there, frozen, as his words echoed through the air, each one a dagger plunging deep into my heart, "You're too insecure," he said, his voice devoid of the warmth it once held. "You overthink everything, and you don't trust me."
The world around me blurred as tears welled up in my eyes. I could barely comprehend what was happening. This was the man I loved with every fiber of my being, the one who was my everything. How could he say these things?
I wanted to scream, to shake him, to search for the man who once promised her forever. But he's already gone, standing in front of me yet so painfully out of reach.
Because when love fades, it doesn't disappear in words. It vanishes in the way someone stops looking at you like you're home ,is what they say
My chest tightened, and I struggled to breathe. The room felt like it was closing in on me, suffocating me with the weight of his words. He just looks at me, his eyes no longer holding the warmth they once did.
With each step he took away from me, the air grew thinner, constricting around my lungs, stealing my breath. I stood there, paralyzed, drowning in the wreckage of his departure. His silhouette faded into the distance, a painful reminder of the trust he had dismantled with his indifference.
In the shadowed corridors of boarding school life, Aurel steps into a world where relations sparkle like glass, fragile yet dazzling. But beneath the surface glimmer, she finds shards of betrayal and the ache of isolation. Through the dance of heartbreaks and the symphony of struggles of a student and a teen, Aurel discovers her way back to herself.
Kai Gilling, a transgender wanderer traversing the American West, has to trek hundreds of miles in his beat up Jeep, in order to reach an urban legend rumored to be the only settlement still thriving.
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It's a Wasteland, baby. In the uncomfortably not-so-distant future, the world has been ravaged by natural disasters, water shortages, and public apathy. People like Kai Gilling have flocked to the desert (once known as the American West) in hopes of finding a better life. After picking up a pair of siblings, the three come across a strange woman who claims to have a map to Arcadia, an urban legend rumored to be the only city thriving in the wreckage of the old world. Will they keep their hearts set on an oasis in the desert--even if it's just a mirage? Or will they be tempted by something else