Everything I need is packed inside two suitcases and one backpack. I chose every book carefully — I couldn't leave behind even a single favorite.
I look around my bedroom and my chest aches. I'm leaving everything I've ever known in this city. But there's no turning back. Oliver College gave me a full-ride scholarship, and to deny it would be to refuse to let the woman in me grow and the child in me heal.
Now, it's time to go.
— Filha! Está na hora de ir!*— My mom calls, and I grab the last thing missing: the notebook I bought for one purpose-poems, letters I will never send, quotes, and short stories no one will read.
I don't know what lies ahead. I have no idea what's coming at me-or maybe I'm running straight into it-but I know I'll face it with my head held high, because if depression, autism, ADHD, or even myself couldn't destroy me, nothing else will.
The only thing I hope to find while trying to discover who I am is love. An epic kind of love-the kind I write about in stories and poems, the kind I listen to in songs and read about in books. A dumb thing to hope for, you might think. But it's all I want.
*Daughter! It's time to go!
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More than Pretty
Romance✨ "I look at Liam. He's smiling-a kind of smile I can't decipher. He faces me back and raises his eyebrows. I give him a glimpse of a smile. And that's how I sealed my fate." Deborah Ferreira is a shy and hopeless romantic girl whose heart is fearfu...
