★Cassandra★
I woke up the next morning with a heaviness that settled deep in my chest, the kind that clung to me no matter how many times I tried to breathe it away. For a moment, I lay there staring at the ceiling, confused by the swirl of emotions pressing into me. Then it hit me: I had walked out on Nathan. I covered my face with both hands.
“Why did I do that?” I whispered into the quiet room. I had surprised myself. I was not the type to run away from a conversation, especially not one that mattered. But the moment Nathan mentioned going public, everything inside me tightened. I panicked. Truly panicked. Not because I did not care about him, but because the weight of the world, or at least the weight of my world, had landed on my shoulders all at once. My parents. The company. The
