You can be happy even without knowing love or romance.

A girl who grew up unloved discovers by chance that her circumstances constitute abuse. After learning how to escape her current environment and survive from someone, she decides to attend a boarding school with the help of her grandparents, where she faces a turning point in her life. *** The depictions of abuse have been toned down. Because of this, some readers may feel that the characters are overreacting, but please forgive us as the story was written as a mild one. Additionally, while this work is tagged as girls' love, the connection is purely emotional. It's unclear whether it qualifies as romance, but there are relationships that are deeper than friendship—a kind of bond that is both.