Prologue
To the outside world, Aveline was just an ordinary face in the crowd, moving silently through the daily chore of survival. People saw her polite nods and quiet smiles, completely blind to the hollow exhaustion hiding behind her eyes. No one knew that she was wearing happiness like a performative mask, hiding a soul that had been dismantled piece by piece by the harsh realities of growing up.
Behind that quiet exterior was a girl who had waded through deep, unvocalized winters of grief—from the childhood loss of her dog, Diego, to the toxic dark of teenage self-hatred, drifting friendships, and career failure. She had spent her entire youth running from her own reflection, learning how to bleed without making a single sound while carrying a forbidden love in the silent margins of her heart.
These pages are the record of her natural cycles of dismantling and rebuilding. This is the simple, heartbreaking, and stunningly beautiful journey of how a broken girl stopped chasing society's blueprints, dropped her weapons against the mirror, and finally discovered the ultimate courage to accept her flaws.
This is the story of her survival.
Welcome to Seasons of Me.
