What We Didn't Say|Jermajesty Jackson

Some stories start with a spark... and others burn quietly for years.

It all begins on an ordinary night, gathered around a bonfire, where the laughter seems to hide more than it lets on. Sloane watches the flames as memories threaten to catch up with her. By her side are the people who've always been her entire world: Bigi, her lifelong best friend, and... the one name she's never been able to say without something inside her shaking.

But stories like this don't begin in the present.

Years earlier, when music was everything and their lives first became intertwined thanks to an unexpected friendship with Michael Jackson, Sloane stepped into a world where growing up meant learning how to stay quiet about the things that hurt the most. Between rehearsals, childhood laughter, and moments that once felt insignificant, something deeper began to form... something neither of them ever quite knew how to name.

Because some feelings don't go away - they just get buried.

And some looks say far too much... even when no words are ever spoken.

Caught between chances they never took, silences heavier than any confession, and a story that always seems to work against them, Sloane and Jermajesty will learn that time doesn't always wait... and some opportunities don't come back around.

Now, as the fire slowly dies down, one question lingers in the air:

What would've happened if they'd just found the courage to say it all sooner?

💫 Follow Sloane on a journey filled with contradictions and bottled-up emotions that are bound to explode sooner or later... and maybe not in the way you'd expect.

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Originally written in Spanish