Heartstrings and Heartbreaks
Then, without a word, she blocked Diana's number, as if blocking out the noise could somehow mute the chaos in her heart.
For more than a decade, she had grown up with Oscar, shared secrets and birthdays and tearful adolescent confessions. Their bond had once felt like it would last a lifetime.
Now, piece by piece, it was unraveling.
She walked forward, slowly. Stumbling. As if her legs no longer belonged to her.
And then, just like that—everything went black.
A blinding flash. And suddenly she was seventeen again, Oscar approaching her in his school uniform, calling out her name like he always did.