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I was walking home one day and someone called out from behind me. I turned around and it was my crush. I just smiled; we would occasionally hang out, maybe ... read more -
* * * it didn’t happen again, we didn’t talk about it. I only passed her in hallways, glancing quickly at my shoelaces, checking that they were in fact tied. ... read more -
* * * I was seventeen. My mom asked me to go shopping with her. For groceries. She hates shopping for groceries and never goes in the middle of the ... read more -
I breathed in. I breathed out. I breathed in. And held it because it felt so refreshing. This was here to stay. I could trust it to, I could trust ... read more -
She wouldn’t understand how I felt. No one could, I couldn’t trust them to understand. My dad had stopped asking after he realized that I was always just fine. I ... read more -
I held my breath, if I didn’t I would choke on the things I didn’t know were hiding in me. If I didn’t I would suffocate on all the tears ... read more -
No one noticed. I went to school the next day, carrying my mask and fumbling around in the dark, searching for any nook or cranny I could get a steady ... read more -
having to experience the real pain of it. At that moment, I was thrust into darkness. I closed my eyes. I breathed in. I breathed out. No one noticed. This ... read more -
He thought no one noticed, but I did. I always noticed things that people thought they could hide when everyone else turned their heads away, and turned their eyes to ... read more -
I want to calm the anger in his eyes, to tell him I am sorry if I hurt his feelings, and that there is nothing more I want in the ... read more
