Untaken Hands

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Summary

Some stories don’t end where they begin… Some never truly end—they simply remain unfinished. For Emma, the past was never just a forgotten childhood— it was a story left incomplete. Within those cold walls, where unspoken feelings took root, there was a pair of eyes… four years older, quiet, dark, and far too real. Then life intervened. Paths diverged. Names faded, faces blurred— but some feelings never truly disappear. Years later, when they cross paths again like two strangers cast into entirely different lives, nothing is the same anymore. He is a man haunted by the shadows of the past. Emma… still carries the weight of untaken hands in her heart. And some encounters… are never just coincidence. This is not a story where love heals— it’s a story where love wounds. Of two people who find each other, but can never fully hold on. Because some hands… are not meant to be held— only to be lost.

Status
Ongoing
Chapters
4
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Chapter 1 - I am Emma


I am Emma.

Are you ready to hear my story?

It is not a story woven from soft, pastel dreams—

not one that fills your stomach with butterflies or leaves you smiling in quiet delight.

No… mine is different.

It is long, heavy, and lined with the quiet ache of countless disappointments.

I am not telling it to entertain you.

I am telling it because something inside me refuses to stay silent.

Because there are words that have waited too long to be spoken,

feelings that demand to be poured out—endlessly, relentlessly.

Why did I begin?

Perhaps to rewrite what was broken.

Perhaps to question what was left unanswered.

Or maybe… for those who, like me, once reached out

and found no hand reaching back.

This is for the untaken hands.

For the stories that were never held…