Stars the Sea could never hold.
13 parts Ongoing MatureI never believed the ocean could keep secrets. Para sa 'kin, the sea was just dagat-salt, waves, and endless blue. But that night... it felt different. As if every wave carried whispers I couldn't seem to understand.
One moment, I was drowning. The next, I was breathing air that didn't belong to my world.. And yet, there he was in the middle of all the strangeness.
A stranger who looked at me as if I were something unreal. His words, strange and heavy, brushed against my ears, but his eyes-spoke a language I almost understood. When his hand reached for me, even for a second, my heart betrayed me, beating to a rhythm that didn't feel like mine.
I should've run. I should've questioned everything. But in that moment, between fear and wonder, I knew one thing-
Somewhere between the ocean and the stars, fate had found me.