The Week She Vanished

Chapter 31 The first day Nora didn’t show up, no one thought much of it. College had a way of swallowing people whole for days at a time late nights, skipped lectures, mental health days no one talked about. Absence was normal. Silence wasn’t suspicious yet. By the second day, Trisha noticed. Nora never missed their morning coffee on Tuesdays. Never. Even during exams. Even when she was exhausted. Especially when she was exhausted. Trisha stared at the empty chair across from her, fingers tightening around her cup as the minutes dragged on. She checked her phone again. No reply. “Maybe she overslept,” she muttered, more to reassure herself than anything else. By the third day, worry crept in quietly. Nora’s room stayed locked. Her bed untouched. Her sketchbook always open, always messy lay exactly where it had been days ago. No half-finished drawings. No new pencil shavings on the floor. Trisha knocked. Then knocked harder. Nothing. She sent messages. Left voicemails. Trie

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Machines Don’t Breathe for You

Chapter 32 Hospitals always smelled the same clean, sharp, unforgiving. Jaden noticed it immediately, the way the scent clung to his clothes as soon as he stepped inside, like a warning he couldn’t ignore. The fluorescent lights overhead hummed softly, casting everything in pale white that made faces look tired, hollow. Too honest. Trisha walked a few steps ahead of him, shoulders tense, arms wrapped tightly around herself as if she might shatter if she didn’t hold on. Her eyes were swollen from crying, lashes clumped together, but she kept moving, one foot in front of the other, like stopping would mean accepting something she wasn’t ready to. Neither of them spoke. The doctor led them down a long hallway. Each step felt heavier than the last. Jaden’s heartbeat pounded in his ears, loud enough to drown out the distant beeping of machines, the muffled conversations behind closed doors. Please let her be okay, he thought, over and over, like a prayer he didn’t know if he deserve

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The Call That Broke Everything

Chapter 33 Nora dreamed in fragments. Not images feelings. Fear without a face. A pressure in her chest. The echo of a ringing phone she could never quite reach. It rang and rang, sharp and insistent, slicing through the darkness around her. Her body felt heavy, like it had been stitched to the earth. She tried to move, to answer, to scream that she was here but the sound died before it could form. Somewhere in that endless dark, a voice whispered her name. And somewhere else, very far away, Trisha sat beside her hospital bed, clutching a phone that felt like it weighed a thousand pounds. Trisha hadn’t planned to call Nora’s family yet. She kept telling herself she just needed more time. One more hour. One more sign. One flicker of movement, a squeeze of fingers, anything to prove that Nora would wake up and explain everything herself, the way she always did. But the silence was eating her alive. Jaden stood by the window, arms crossed tightly over his chest, staring out at

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บททั้งหมดของ THE ART OF FALLING : บทที่ 31 - บทที่ 33

The Week She Vanished

Machines Don’t Breathe for You

The Call That Broke Everything