Beauty in the Overlooked

Cassia Rowe

The words Darius had said echoed in my mind throughout the night.

“Because I… I was wrong about you… you deserve respect. And I won’t stand by and watch you be torn down by people who don’t know anything about you.”

The way he’d looked at me while saying it, as though he was trying to see past every layer of misunderstanding between us, had been unforgettable.

The next morning, I woke