Chapter Six: When Silence is Too Loud
Ysa never meant to get attention. Not really.
She just wanted to survive the new school, keep her head low, and avoid drama. But when Ms. Fabian, their music teacher, accidentally overheard Ysa humming behind the library one afternoon, everything changed.
She was invited to perform at the school’s talent showcase. A casual song. One guitar. Nothing too flashy.
But the moment Ysa opened her mouth, the room fell quiet.
Soft. Raw. Honest.
It was a kind of magic—though not the magical kind she had yet to understand. It was the magic of connection, of words strung through chords, of pain turned into music.
The applause came like a wave. For once, she felt… seen.
But not everyone was clapping.
Bella’s smile was tight. Her hands unmoving. Her eyes burning with the realization that she—the queen—was being dethroned… one guitar string at a time.
From then on, Ysa’s life became a storm of subtle torments. Her things would go missing. Whispered rumors spread like wildfire. One time, her guitar was found with a snapped string and someone carved the word "poser" into its wood.
She wanted to stay calm. Forgive. Be the bigger person.
But pain builds up like thunder, and grief like lightning. And one night—alone in her room, crying into her pillow—Ysa whispered the very thing her bloodline was cursed never to say lightly.
“I wish they’d feel everything I feel… but worse.”
And with those words, the air shifted.
The storm had been unleashed.
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and then Add to home screen.