Alive April Nights

Some people spend their lives waiting for the day they finally feel alive.

For Mara, every tomorrow felt like another chance to become someone she thought she had to be-smarter, stronger, kinder, quieter. She carried expectations as though they were stitched into her skin, smiling through the weight of family, friendships, heartbreak, and battles no one ever noticed.

She was always almost.

Almost happy.

Almost whole.

Almost alive.

Until a series of April nights changed everything.

This is not a story about being saved. It's a story about falling apart, and finding healing the messy way. About learning that the greatest love you'll ever find isn't the one that completes you, but the one that reminds you how to live. And perhaps, for Mara, living meant spending it with Eraques.

Because sometimes, being alive is more than simply surviving.

And maybe love-in all the ways it finds us, is the answer to surviving those Alive April Nights.