Once written never to be read

Life isn't a fairy tale. It doesn't start with once upon a time, and it doesn't always end with happily ever after. It is a tale of love and trials. This is the flow of a story, filled with both smiles and tears.

Sa murang edad, naging bihasa na siya sa pag-iisip. Hindi dahil gusto niya, kundi dahil kailangan. Kailangan niyang tumayong ate at magulang sa edad na siyam na taong gulang.

Sa halip na laruan ang hawak niya, naging sandok at labahan. Sa halip na pawis mula sa paglalaro ang pupunasan, naging luha mula sa nakaraan.

Hanggang dumating ang isang madilim na bangungot. Saksi siya ng tahanan na minsang inisip niya ay panghabang-buhay.

Sa bigat ng nararamdaman, ito ang nagtulak sa kanya na magsulat ng pekeng mundo. Tanging mga tinta at papel lang ang nagsisilbing tahanan niya. Naniniwala siya na ang tunay na kasiyahan sa mundo ay nasa mga imahinasyon lamang.

"Once written, never to be read."

A story by Orpheline Astris Almonte, born from her belief that some words exist only on paper, never to truly live.

That belief followed her into adulthood.

Yet in the hands of an artist, someone who could drape her dark past in color, she realized it wasn't black ink that brought life to her shadowed world. It was a boy named Sylas Aurel Elizalde, who could paint over her scars with nothing but crayons, turning pain into something beautiful.

Subalit, kahit gaano man kakulay ang kanyang iginuhit, mananatiling walang kulay ang kanilang pag-ibig. Gaano man kalalim ang pag-ibig nila sa isa't isa, ang kanilang tadhana ay matatapos pa rin sa "sana."

Not everything she wrote could be read, and not everything he drew could ever be colored, because the ink and crayons would never be noticed. They were etched into her scars, for the saddest things are never meant to be seen.

Now, if their story is already finished, how do they go back? Pareho silang sugatan, pareho nagdusa sa madilim na nakaraan, but will fate give them a chance to cross paths once more?