Echoes of a Proposal

(Neva's POV)

The first day back at school came in a blink of an eye.

I stood in front of the mirror, adjusting my collar and smoothing down the pleats of my new uniform, wondering if everything that had happened in the past few days had been real— or just a dream I wasn’t ready to wake up from.

Silas’s words from the morning before still echoed in my head: "I am serious about us. Be my future brid