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You’re not alone.

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Summary

She was the one who cared about and took care of everyone else. She was the one who smiled and nodded and pretended she was fine. She kept the house, the friend group, and many other things together. She said she was fine if someone asked but fine is a word that’s notoriously used as a lie and anyone who had used the word fine themselves knew that too. She was fine on the outside while she screamed on the inside begging silently for someone to see the cracks. But deep down she knew if they saw, it could all be lost.

Genre
Lgbtq
Author
Scarlett A
Status
Ongoing
Chapters
8
Rating
4.8 4 reviews
Age Rating
18+

Blurb

How did I get here? I don’t really know I just did. I was happy once that was a long time ago. And no matter how much I built my life around other people, how much I loved them… how much I cared, they would never really know. And maybe that’s my fault, maybe it is.

I’m the one who kept secrets. The one who never let myself feel, talk, try to reach out… but in the end they probably wouldn’t have cared anyway. I took care of them, and they felt seen, I took care of them, and tried to be me. But you can’t really be yourself when the real you could ruin everything.

To let my guard down could mean my world collapses, but in the end it doesn’t matter. Nothing really matters. We’re all a product of what other people make us…

And it just so happened that I became a product of control. Control, it’s a funny thing really because it’s a figment, a concept, a wish. One that will never be real because it’s a wish. You can think that you’re in control but eventually you’ll realize you weren’t. People think they’re in control everyday but then they die, they get hurt… because control isn’t real it’s a wish, a wish that I tried to hold onto but I couldn’t.

No I’m done. And maybe that’s why I have this knife, and maybe that’s why the blood is rolling down my wrists. But at least I’m finally free. They survived before me, they can survive after me. I hope. I guess I’ll never know…

Let Scarlett A know what you thought about this chapter!
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Love this

Funny

2

Funny

Spicy

2

Spicy

Suspenseful

7

Suspenseful

Emotional

15

Emotional

Profound

6

Profound

Heartwarming

4

Heartwarming

Shocking

5

Shocking

Good Writing

13

Good Writing

Compelling Plot

11

Compelling Plot

Great Character

12

Great Character

Strong Dialog

8

Strong Dialog

View 6 previous comments…
author

Wow! How heartbreaking. I did not see that coming. Now I really want to know what her back story is ...🫢

2 months
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author

First I would like to take what a deep compelling opening and secondly heartbreaking and I also want to know the back story so here we go I am in 💜

2 months
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author

wow great chapter

20 hours
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