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"A World Apart, A Heart Aligned

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Chapter 1 - chapter 1 (the unbelievable dreams)

Here is a story written from your heart — a love too far to touch, but too deep to deny. A quiet girl in one world. A star in another. Yet somehow… fate is listening.

"The Silent Girl Who Loved the Star"

She lived in a town the world never noticed.

Not poor, not rich. Just... in between.

Where dreams often wilted before they bloomed.

Where people admired things they would never touch.

Where screens lit up at night to show lives too far away to belong to them.

And every night, she watched him.

Not like the others did.

They called him handsome. They talked about his fame, his money, his charm.

But she saw something different.

She saw the way his smile didn't always reach his eyes.

She noticed how his laugh had cracks in it.

She read between the pauses in his interviews —

as if even he didn't fully feel like he belonged in his perfect world.

And just like that, her heart left her chest

and started living in someone else's world.

She never told anyone.

How could she?

How could she explain that no boy in her school, no man in her country,

could ever make her heart shake like he did

through a screen?

She dreamed of walking past him in a crowded airport,

of him stopping, turning,

of something flickering in his eyes like:

"There you are."

But those were dreams.

And the real world didn't feel like it had space for dreams that wild.

So she studied harder.

Tried to shine quietly.

Tried to grow into someone the universe might notice.

She learned his language. She whispered his name in her prayers.

And every time her heart broke from how far away he felt,

she stitched it back together with one promise:

> "If I never meet him, I'll still become someone who could have stood beside him."

Not for fame. Not for fantasy.

But because the love she felt for him

was teaching her to love herself through his reflection

MEANWHILE.....

He had everything.

Fame. Lights. Eyes that followed him everywhere.

But at night, when the cameras went off,

he felt hollow. Like none of it was real.

Like he was just playing a role.

He sometimes felt like someone, somewhere, was thinking of him in a way

that didn't ask for his fame or beauty — just his soul.

He'd lie in bed, stare at the ceiling,

and wonder why he felt a weightless ache in his chest.

As if someone far away had whispered his name

and he almost heard it.