Description
They say parallel lines never meet. But what if they once did? What if, for a fleeting moment, two lives touched, only to be pulled apart by circumstance, stretched thin across years, running side by side. Close enough to remember. Too far to reach. What if the parallel lines of my life and yours crossed not by chance, but in the quiet, inevitable way hearts recognize each other. Across crowded rooms, shared dorms, awkward office meetings? Five years after their painful split, Leina Esquivel has carefully pieced herself back together. She smiles again, even as her heart carries a familiar ache. She's built a life that works: therapy that teaches her how to breathe through the panic, friends who know when to talk and when to sit in silence, routines that guard her from the unexpected. A life as far from Amara Wu as possible. But Amara isn't coming back to explain or apologize. She's returning with something far more dangerous: hope. Hope that what they had was strong enough to survive what most love stories don't. A belief that some bonds don't unravel, not with time, not with distance, not even with the hardest kind of goodbye. This is a story about two women who once fell in love... and now must decide if they're brave enough to try again. It unfolds in the quiet pauses between conversations, in the silences that say more than words ever could. It's about learning to trust after betrayal. About the soft, daily goodbyes we barely notice and the rare, deliberate hellos that might change everything. Because sometimes parallel lines don't meet by accident. Sometimes, they choose to intersect.
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