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Title: “Through the Scar” The world had never been kind to Elias. Before the accident, he was quiet but not unseen—an ordinary boy with a soft laugh and a love for sketching cityscapes in the corners of his notebooks. But after the crash, when he woke to find half his vision gone and his face traced with jagged scars, the world decided he was no longer someone worth looking at. Neighbors whispered. Old friends avoided his eyes. Even the mirror seemed crueler than it had before. Elias withdrew. He stopped sketching. He stopped speaking. He moved through life like a ghost, convinced that no one could love someone as broken, as disfigured, as him. But Adrian Hale, the CEO of one of the largest tech firms in the city, had seen him long before the accident—on an ordinary afternoon in a quiet café. Elias hadn’t noticed him then, his head bent over a sketchbook, graphite smudges on his fingertips. But Adrian had. He remembered the way Elias’s eyes glowed with quiet concentration, the soft curve of his smile when he drew something he liked. That moment had imprinted itself on Adrian in a way he couldn’t explain. So when fate brought them together again months after the accident, Elias scarred and withdrawn, Adrian didn’t see what the world saw. He didn’t see ruined beauty. He saw the boy who had once captured his attention without even trying. The same boy whose gentle spirit still lingered beneath the pain. Elias didn’t understand it. He pushed Adrian away at first, convinced the man’s kindness was just pity. “Don’t look at me like that,” Elias muttered one night, his voice breaking. “I’m ugly now.” But Adrian only stepped closer, his gaze steady. “No, Elias. You’re not ugly. You’ve survived something that could’ve destroyed you. Every scar is proof of your strength. And to me, you’re still the boy I couldn’t forget.” Little by little, Adrian’s persistence chipped away at Elias’s walls. (sorry i couldnt find the right picture😭😭)