- Aria -
It's hard to put into words just how saturated my days have become since the kiss. I mean, to the casual observer, I was an adult acting like a sixteen-year-old girl caught in a whirlwind of American high school drama. Still, inside my heart, I was a thousand butterflies, each one fueled by hope and a hint of uncontrollable excitement. Just one peck on the cheek from Sean, and suddenly my world was a kaleidoscope of warm, dizzying colors.
But here's the kicker—it's all so fragile. Like glass or, oh, I don't know, a carefully constructed sandcastle on a beach where the tide was coming in. Four days before my admission to the hospital loomed like an ominous cloud, and while I reveled in my bubble of bliss, a voice nagged at me like a mosquito buzzing in my ear. What if this happin
