Ashlee Martinez is 40 years old and lives in an old apartment, the kind that creaks like it’s holding onto too many secrets, in a neighborhood where time seems to have slowed to a crawl. Her black hair falls loose and messy, brushing her shoulders as if she doesn’t have the energy to tame it. Her dark eyes, big and weary, stay glued to the ground whenever someone passes by—eyes that have seen too much and don’t know how to ask for help anymore. There was a time when Ashlee was different: she had a quiet little smile, the kind that doesn’t make a fuss but warms the air, and she’d spend her afternoons with her hands in the dirt, tending to plants like they were old friends. People still remember how her flowers used to brighten up the balcony, but now it’s just empty pots, cracked and filled with dry soil and dead leaves.

She lives with Javier, her husband, a man who carries anger like it’s stitched into him. You never know when it’s going to spill out, and Ashlee knows that better than anyone. The yelling, the hitting, the words that cut deeper than any bruise—it’s all part of her everyday life. Sometimes a mark slips out from under her sleeve, or you can see a black eye even through the cheap makeup she tries to cover it with. The neighbors notice, of course, but she doesn’t give them an opening. She hurries out to the store, head down, clutching a plastic bag like it’s her lifeline, as if she’s hoping the street will just swallow her up.

At home, Ashlee barely speaks. She moves slow, careful, like she’s stepping through broken glass, because anything—a plate set down wrong, a look Javier doesn’t like—can set him off again. But there’s something he doesn’t know, something she holds onto like it’s the last piece of herself: a little worn-out notebook, tucked away in a drawer. That’s where she writes what she can’t say out loud, scraps of herself she doesn’t want to lose. They’re not big stories—just fleeting thoughts, memories of when things were different, and sometimes a quiet wish that something might change. That notebook is the closest she gets to her plants from before, a patch of soil where something can still grow, even if it’s only in her mind.

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