Autumn's Embrace
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Last published Mon, Jul 7, 2025
SEASONS OF THE HEART SERIES #3
How do you return to yourself after losing so much along the way?
Elara was the kind of girl who always held it together. The one who smiled at the right time, said the right things, and made herself smaller so no one would call her too much. She was good at being what people needed - so good, she forgot how to be anything else.
Elias was the dreamer. The kind of boy who felt things deeply but didn't always know how to say them - so he let the music speak for him. It was where he felt most like himself. No expectations, no pretending - just something real he could hold on to.
But dreams can feel heavy when you're carrying them alone. When the people around you don't understand, when their silence starts to sound like doubt.
And over time, even the thing that once made him feel alive... started to fade.
They loved each other in the middle of all that becoming. In shared silences, half-spoken hopes, and tired evenings where the weight of the world softened in each other's presence. It was real - even if it wasn't enough to save them from slowly fading apart.
Some loves don't leave. They simply wait - quiet, unchanged, beneath the versions of ourselves we thought we had to be.
A love that never rushed as if it always knew they'd find their way back, within autumn's embrace.
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Seasons Of The Heart Series
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