I Read Therefore I Am Novels & Stories

That's why we are being toyed by serendipity. But with each passing second, an image pops up in my mind. It whispers to me the mystery behind what they revealed. It is to be awake in reality, to see how it really works, so am I really awake? I seek them out. "Once I said it, I will do it. No more stepping backward and putting off my feet out of the stage." Not only must it be in word, but it must also be proved by action. In that way, I can defend myself verbally because action was also taken to do what was said.

“Iz, you have the роеm framed by уоur bed. I’vе read it a million tіmеѕ whіlе holding уоu. It’s burnt іntо mу brаіn and when I rеаd it, аll I рісturе іѕ уоur fасе. It ѕееmеd реrfесt tо hаvе іt іnѕсrіbеd оntо our rings.”

“ I am,” ¬P-Lia¬

I turned to the passage I had underlined so many times the ink had gone thin. I read it aloud into the perfect hollow house, my own voice strange in the silence. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." The walls seemed to contract. Something moved through me from the soles of my feet upward, slow and warm and entirely unlike anything the past fourteen months had produced. It found the hollow spaces and filled them, found the places that had gone quiet and reminded them of their own frequency. I had underlined those words at fifteen. Had underlined them again at eighteen. Had pressed a star into the margin at twenty with a pen that had nearly

Why they call to me. I owe that to myself. I came here to start over, and that’s what I’m going to do. I close my eyes and whisper, more to the room than to anyone else: “I’ll try.” It’s a beginning, and tomorrow I will start again.

And for the first time since I learned what I was… I am not becoming anything. I already am.

“You will,” “How are you so sure of that?” “Because you are an amazing person and believe it or not, you can rule.” “You always know how to cheer me up,” he says, and gives me his brightest smile. “Now get some sleep. Be ready for your big day,” I say, and we both head upstairs. ~^~ The one thing that always relaxes me is when I go for a jog every morning. I am a track and field athlete, so I have to stay in shape, same applies for my siblings.

I stood up, my eyes blazing with a newfound strength. "No," I said, my voice steady despite the tremors that still wracked my body. "I will not allow you or anyone else to define me by the names they give me. I am not an omen, nor am I a curse. I am a person worthy of love and acceptance, just like anyone else."

"Amelia, trust in yourself. Believe in the strength you hold within. You have a fire within you that can match any challenge." His words struck a chord, piercing through the fog of confusion. With newfound resolve, I channeled my energy, my emotions fueling every strike. The pain and frustration, the yearning and the fear—all poured into my movements. In that moment, I felt alive, connected to something primal and untamed.

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