THE COLORS WE CARRY
READING AGE 18+
Story DescriptionSeventeen-year-old Kiana has always been the quiet girl in the back of the room—the one who listens more than she speaks, who hides her feelings in sketches and unfinished thoughts. Rain is the only place where she feels honest. Rain oesn't ask questions.Then she meets Zara.Bold, bright, and impossible to ignore, Zara arrives in a yellow hoodie and rewrites the shape of Kiana’s world with a single smile. What begins as a chance encounter in a storm quickly becomes something deeper—something Kiana never expected to want, and something Zara refuses to hide.As the girls draw closer, Kiana must face the truths she’s always avoided: wanting is risky, vulnerability is terrifying, and sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone truly see you. But Zara carries her own shadows behind her confident grin, and Kiana isn’t sure if she’s falling for the girl Zara is—or the girl she’s trying to be.
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The last week of school passed in a blur of rustling notebooks, scattered goodbyes, and the soft ache of change humming inside Kiana’s chest. Everyone else seemed focused on exams, on summer plans, on the familiar panic of growing up — but Kiana carried a different kind of weight. A hopeful one. A frightening one.
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