Off Guard (Rainbow Series #1)

They always say love is simple. But babe, I've never been anyone's "simple."

I'm the color they skip when they're too scared to paint outside the lines. The shade that makes them squint, not because it's ugly-but because it's undeniable. I'm the softness they never learned to touch right-just stare at, or worse, try to mute, edit, correct.

I walk these hallways like they're mine-heels clicking like commas in a poem they'll never have the courage to finish. They stare, they whisper, but none of them know how heavy it is to wear your truth like perfume-sweet, unapologetic, impossible to ignore.

I am Elian Reyes.
Not your phase. Not your curiosity. Not your headline.
Just a girl who's loud, dreams too fiercely, and lives too boldly to be simplified.