Alice
It felt like something heavy was pressing down on my chest. I forced myself to take deep breaths, trying to calm down, but I couldn't stop the nerves crawling through my entire body—from my trembling fingers to my tightening throat.
I feel like something is about to happen—
Something I won't be able to control.
And somehow, that scares me more than the words I had planned to say to him tonight.
I love Javier. That's the truth. I don't have to pretend or lie to myself about that. And maybe that's exactly why continuing to deceive him feels unbearably painful.
We started out as friends. We weren't close at first. There was distance. Awkwardness. Shyness. Conversations that were occasional, sometimes uncomfortable. But with every simple How are you? And every late-ni
