My Sweet Anime Voice Broke His Heart

I was born with a natural baby-doll voice. Because of it, people always treated me like a freak, whispering behind my back.

At our college graduation afterparty, I gathered my courage and handed a custom-made anime figurine—one I had crafted with my own hands—to my long-time crush, Ethan Vance.

But before he could take it, his childhood sweetheart, Scarlett Thorne, smirked and knocked the gift right out of my hands.

Ethan, however, bent down and picked it up. He gently brushed the dust off the figurine, and then, to my shock, dropped to one knee.