Prologue: the boy in the back row

She wrote to feel, he stayed to fade.

Muse and Mirror follows Naomi, a quiet Black girl with a loud heart, whose world is made of verses and metaphors. When she meets Khai, a guarded boy who carries more silence than intention, her poetry begins to take shape around him - a muse she can't quite hold.

But as her notebooks fill with love he can't return, Naomi is forced to ask: Can words alone build something real? Or are some stories only meant to be written, not lived?

This coming-of-heart story explores unrequited love, emotional growth, and the moment a girl realizes her pen was never meant to chase someone else - but to find her own voice.