He Ruined Me, Now I’m His Step Mother
which means making a mess, and I’m sitting at my table with a new sketchbook open and a pencil in my hand and for the first time in my life I’m not drawing to escape, I’m drawing because I want to, because I can, because I’m free.
And freedom, I’ve learned, isn’t a destination you arrive at, it’s a decision you make every morning when you wake up and choose joy over fear, choose yourself over your past, choose love over walls, and I make that choice every day now, sometimes with shaking hands, sometimes with a full heart, but I make it, and that’s enough, that’s everything, that’s me, Aria, alive, whole, and finally, finally home.
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