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Resilience
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Ongoing, First published Oct 29, 2025
Mature
Resilience (adj): the ability to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has happened


Elizah has always been quiet, watching the world from the sidelines. But she had always been friends with Aiden, for as long as she can remember, he has always been the boy next door and her best friend.
He held secrets she wouldn't tell a soul and with those secrets he also held her heart.

Sophomore year of high school changed everything, Aiden became popular, became the hockey captain. Elizah however remained the quiet girl she's always been. 
With popularity comes status, suddenly Aiden was packing and heading to build himself a hockey career.
Elizah found herself losing the one person she thought she'd always have.

Fast forward three years, Elizah got accepted into Boston university to study the one thing shes always wanted to, Medicine.
Imagine her surprise when she finds out the hockey superstar everyone's calling 'Arés' is non other than Aiden, her childhood sweetheart. 
And now imagine her shock when her rooming gets mixed up and she gets assigned in a room with non other than 
Arés himself

But time has passed, Elizah is no longer the girl shes always been instead Aiden finds himself coming across a different girl, a girl who's no longer quiet but cocky, outgoing and confident.
What happens when her new demeanour cracks and Aiden is the only one to see through her act?
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