The Girl Who Hid Her Tears
The Girl Who Hid Her Tears
Chapter One: Behind Her Smile
Everyone thought that Amara was a happy girl.
Whenever she walked into a room, she smiled. Whenever someone asked her how she was doing, she always gave the same answer.
"I'm fine," she would say.
But nobody knew what happened when Amara returned to her room at night.
She would sit quietly on her bed, looking at her phone, hoping someone would send her a message asking if she was okay.
Sometimes, she wanted to tell someone how she really felt, but the words never came out.
She was afraid that people would not understand her. She was afraid that they would think she was weak.
So she learned to hide her tears behind her smile.
One evening, after a long and tiring day, Amara sat beside her window and watched the rain falling outside.
She remembered the days when she was younger, when happiness seemed so easy to find. She remembered laughing with people she loved and believing that everything would always be okay.
A tear slowly rolled down her cheek.
"Why do I feel so alone?" she whispered.
Just then, her phone vibrated.
Amara looked at the screen. She had received a message from someone she had not spoken to in a very long time.
The message contained only five words:
"Amara, are you really okay?"
She stared at the screen, her eyes filling with tears.
For the first time in a long time, someone seemed to be asking the question she had been waiting to hear.
