I hate the World that hurt you

One summer night, twelve-year-old Adora crosses the street to sit with a broken girl she barely knows. As police lights flash and sirens wail behind them, she offers the only empathy Catra ever experienced.

Four years later, just when high school bullies have Adora cornered and afraid, she walks back into her life. Catra returns transformed, tougher, emancipated and living on her own, with a dangerous past she's left behind. But she remembers that nigh and the girl who saw her.

"I owe you" Catra says, offering to teach Adora to fight back. But as training sessions turn into stolen moments and gentle touches become lingering glances, both girls realize some debts can never truly be repaid but transformed into something deeper.

A slow burn romance about childhood trauma, second chances, and discovering that sometimes the person you save ends up saving you right back.

This started as a short story but when I had reached 20K words, I was forced to consider the meaning of the word "short" and turned into a full story.

Will update this once or twice per week since most is already written and only needs a proofread or twelve. I had planned to post it when I was done but at Ch 40, I think I have enough for now to never fall behind.

I do not own the characters in this story except for ones that I make up, credits goes to Noelle Stevenson and the creators of "She-ra and the Princesses of Power".