17 Rue des Lilas

Lucienna is sixteen and already unraveling in a house where time decays instead of moves. At 16 Rue des Lilas, she lives between an alcoholic father consumed by failure and a mother who treats her existence as a lifelong mistake. Love is absent; endurance replaces it. She survives by counting the years until escape and by writing her pain down, throwing it over the fence like something disposable.
One day, the neighbor notices.
Fuite-a name meaning escape-has read her words. Worse, he understands them. In libraries and silences, he offers recognition, and to a girl who has never been seen, this feels like salvation. She clings to him, mistaking attention for safety and devotion for love.
When her parents are arrested, Lucienna runs, believing freedom is finally within reach. But fear and loneliness drive her back to Fuite, where care slowly reveals itself as control. The truth emerges too late: he does not love Lucienna-he is projecting his dead sister onto her, using her as a vessel for unresolved grief.
The story ends as a quiet tragedy of obsession and projection, where escape is promised but never truly given, and love becomes another form of captivity.