I used to believe that leaving was the only way to survive.
Leaving people. Leaving places. Leaving versions of myself that no longer fit. It became my habit - my quiet escape whenever things became too heavy to carry.
But no one ever told me that staying could be braver than leaving.
This book is not about perfect people. It is about broken ones. The ones who smile while falling apart. The ones who pretend they don't care. The ones who love deeply but quietly.
Maybe you are one of them.
Maybe you've been strong for too long. Maybe you've been pretending that everything is fine. Maybe you've been waiting for something - or someone - to remind you that you're still allowed to feel.
This story is not here to fix you.
It is here to sit beside you.
And if you listen closely, you might hear your own heart speaking between these pages. MaireeWrites writes stories for people who feel too much and say too little. Her words live between silence and truth, where emotions are loud but spoken gently.
She believes stories are not meant to escape reality - but to understand it.
This is her first step into the world she was always afraid to show.