Saving Gwen [On-going]

Gwen Quizon is a graduating college student, but she doesn't see a future for herself. She isn't like everyone else not in a way that makes her stand out, but in a way that makes her want to disappear. The trauma she has carried since she was thirteen has left her drowning in self-hatred, unable to see herself as anything more than broken. She moves through life unseen, unheard, and she has stopped hoping for anything different.

One night, she walks to Brooke Bridge, ready to let go of everything. The city moves on behind her, unaware, uncaring. She closes her eyes, prepared to fall, when a quiet voice stops her. Isaiah Forca a stranger, yet somehow familiar reaches out, not with hands, but with words that keep her tethered to the world. He doesn't try to fix her. He doesn't tell her to be strong. He just listens. And for the first time, Gwen lets herself be seen.

What she doesn't know is that Isaiah carries his own scars, ones he isn't ready to share. His silence is not emptiness, but fear.

Weeks later, when the new semester begins, Gwen walks into class and finds him again. The stranger who saved her is no longer just a fleeting moment in the dark. He is her classmate. Their eyes meet across the room, but neither speaks. Gwen hesitates, afraid of what it means to remember that night. And Isaiah? He isn't sure if he is ready to be seen, too.

Two souls, broken in different ways, bound by a single night. Neither of them knows it yet, but saving Gwen might just mean saving Isaiah, too.