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Tangled paths

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Synopsis
She’s the perfect daughter. The top student. The girl who never falls apart— until she does. Quietly. Back in India, her future’s already chosen. Here, in California, she’s trying to remember what it feels like to want something. To want herself. But how do you fight for a life you’re not sure you deserve? How do you open up when silence is the only thing that ever protected you? In the middle of art, anxiety, and almost-love, she’s about to learn: some people don’t leave— even when you beg them to
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Chapter 1 - Introduction

What scares you the most? For me, it's the fear of exposure—of my carefully constructed facade shattering. The thought of the world discovering that I'm not who I pretend to be terrifies me. I'm not the Alexis everyone sees: the perfect student, the obedient daughter, the girl who always has it together. That image is a mask. Behind it, I'm just someone stumbling through life, unsure of what she wants, unable to even recognize herself in the mirror.

 

 My life feels like a story someone else is writing. My parents, to be precise. They've scripted every chapter, and I'm just playing the role they assigned me—like an actor reciting lines in a play she never auditioned for. There's no room for edits, no chance to rewrite it.

 Everything was decided before I even knew I had choices. And maybe that's the scariest part—realizing I never had a say in my own future.