Yours Truly by Haley Tyler EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Haley Tyler
- Language: English
- Genre: Gothic Romances
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Students knew when you cultivated their creative environment. They
knew when you harbored it, cherished it. And I’d always done that.
Made my space for them. It was never about what I wanted, never
what I needed—always them.
Their young minds were ripe with brilliant ideas, waiting to jump onto
paper and become the next great American novel, and I’d always
considered myself lucky to be a small part of their journey. Witnessing their
evolution from awkward, gangly young adults to well-rounded graduates
with their entire lives ahead of them was something I never took lightly.
Young people, especially creative ones, had a way of seeing things I
could never fully comprehend. I yearned to live in the world they did, to
experience things as passionately and deeply. To love just as deeply, too.
Yet, those soul-aching artists hogged all the passion for themselves, and I
was left empty-handed, chasing a dream I’d never have the privilege of
touching.
This room, with its juxtaposition between new and old, modern and
classic, felt like a joke to creativity. Fluorescent lights bounced off rich
wooden floors, reflecting off the shiny surfaces of desks in the lecture hall.
High ceilings, adorned with intricate, dusty filigree, and a blackboard ready
for me to fill with scribbles. Built-in bookshelves lined the back wall,
overflowing with uninspirational leather-bound classics that would likely be
left untouched.
I desperately wanted to cradle their precious ideas in my hands, help
water them until they blossomed into something beautiful.
But not in this place.
This place would deprive them of the sunlight and rich soil they needed
to thrive, and leave their seedlings as nothing more than dried-up, forgotten
ideas in the recesses of their minds, coated by cobwebs and dust, never to
be seen or thought of again.
Sighing, I scrubbed my hand over my freshly-shaven jaw. First
impressions were important, and today I was dressed in my best, looking
like the tenured professor they all believed me to be. But it was hard to
pretend to be excited for a new year of fresh faces, fresh ideas, fresh girls—
I shook myself.
No, not girls. I couldn’t go down that path again. Like Icarus, I’d flown
too close to the sun and was now in a freefall, plummeting back to earth.
My past haunted me, lingering in my mind like a bad dream I could do
nothing about; nothing but endure reliving every night as I lay in bed,
staring up at the stained ceiling, wishing it were the one I’d stared at every
night for the last twenty years instead. But it wasn’t. And it never would be
again.
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