Your Feelings Are Valid Novels & Stories

, she giggles a bit louder as I shake my head. "No. I'm not" Her smile converts into a thoughtful look as I cup her face, pulling her slightly closer. Leaning in, I look into her gorgeous eyes. "Because it's not about me, firefly. I'm no one to tell you how you look and how you should be. I'm no one to tell you to be happy or sad about anything" She lowers her eyes for a second before looking up at me again. "It was never about me. But it took me some time to realize you never needed my validation. It's about you and how you feel about yourself. And as I said, you have the right to be sad and angry. You have the right to feel beautiful and even ugly"

"I didn't come here for a fucking lecture. I came here because I wanted to make sure you were fine. I guess you don't think about other people's feelings then." Her words scratched a patch of skin that wasn't itching to begin with. Grated against my teeth with each passing syllable. "Yes, I do. But your feelings aren't valid here. I was there, Kamari. I know how it feels to be tortured and starved. That isn't something I want for you but that is the path we are heading down." I uttered, keeping my voice as calm as I possibly could. Anger rose up from my toes again. Slowly made its way up to my hands. Then my chest. until it settled into the heart and made its home there.

he deflects flippantly. I wipe the tears from my face and take a calming breath. “Emotions are high, that’s all. I know he didn’t mean to be callous,” I defend. “Doesn’t excuse what he said or did,” he disputes, shaking his head. “But at the risk of upsetting you further, you’re wrong to say you weren’t able to save yourself or the baby.” Feeling invalidated once again, I clutch the bed sheets in my palm as I clench my fist. Why does everyone insist on telling me what my feelings are?

I asked. “It feels… good if I’m being honest.” I had caught her. “I feel heard. My feelings feel validated. I don’t feel like I'm a crazy person. I had always felt like that like I was the only one who saw what happened. But now the whole world has seen it as well,” she said. I could see tears form in her eyes. “I’m happy for you,” I said, “and I'm glad you got the chance to feel seen and heard. It’s too bad it’s not going to last for much longer.

I feel so sad all of a sudden and I know it’s all about this heat season fucking with my mind, but these emotions feel too real. “ You are saying I am not…Loveable? Am I so bad? ”

I yelled at him angrily. "This is what it feels like losing someone. I trusted you fully, loved you completely with my soul, my body, my time, and my everything and all I got was a piece of you. A piece that can never complete me, a piece that was just a mirror of what I thought you were or was, " I told him as tears poured from my eyes... "Tell me why you couldn't trust me? Tell me why you lose faith in me? Give me the reasons why you didn't believe in me when you should be the one that should have got my back that day." I cried out, shaking his body vigorously, while he sniffed in.

"You don't get to tell me how I feel." "Then tell me I'm wrong." Kade moved even closer, his eyes searching mine. "Tell me you don't care that he risked everything to protect you, tell me it doesn't matter." I opened my mouth, then closed it because I didn't know what to say. Did it matter? Part of me was angry at Thorne for interfering but another part, a part I didn't want to admit existed, felt something else. Not love, not anymore but maybe... validation? Proof that I wasn't as worthless as he'd made me feel that night?