1. A Second Too Long

He held my hand like it was his, teased me with silent touches, and never said what he truly felt.
I never asked. I was too scared to break the quiet.

We were cousins. Best friends. Almost something more.
But then came the distance, the silence, the accident... and the part of me I lost with him.

This isn't a love story.
It's a story about everything we never said-and the pieces of us that still remained.