The Myth of Me

Iraaya was the girl who laughed the loudest, the one who wore her mask so carefully that even she forgot it was there. At home, silence cut sharper than anger, and at school, Aurelia and their circle of friends became her only refuge.
When both girls are accepted into a college oceans away, Iraaya believes she has finally slipped free-free to begin again, free to outrun the weight of her past. But myths have a way of following you, and the one she's built around herself begins to unravel.
And then there is her-the girl Iraaya never expected to notice, let alone fall for. A presence both disarming and magnetic, she forces Iraaya to question every truth she thought she knew about love, desire, and herself. But how do you give your heart when you've never believed it was steady enough to hold anyone else's?
In this new world of strangers, secrets, and revelations, Iraaya discovers that the scariest truths are not the ones whispered about her, but the ones she has hidden from herself. And the closer she gets to the light, the more she wonders: who will she be when the mask finally falls away?
The Myth of Me is a diary woven from shadows and confessions, a story of friendship, unexpected love, and the haunting beauty of finding who you are when every illusion shatters.