Chapter 1: The Girl by the WallI had spent years living inside the silence that followed the accident. When I was ten, a fire took my parents and left me unable to walk. People always spoke about it carefully, as if my life were made of glass. Teachers lowered their voices around me. Neighbors smiled with pity. Classmates treated my wheelchair like a wall they didn’t know how to cross. So when prom came, I decided to go. Not because I expected magic. Not because I believed the night would change anything. I went because some stubborn part of me...
Continues…