For as long as she had known, she fake smiled her way through life. She smiled, through her pain. She laughed, but the laughter didn't reach her dull eyes. Even in the midst of crowds, she always felt alone, like she didn’t belong to anyone or anything. Her means of escaping the harsh and cruel reality she lives in was through sleep, for as she slept; she let go of all the agony within her and embraced the sweet nothingness that sleep gave her.
As much as she wanted to share her worries with those she loved, those who cared for her, she couldn’t. It always felt like she would trouble them with whatever she’s facing, so she kept it all to herself. Eventually, all those words she bit back, all those feelings she buried deep down within her, burst like an active volcano; its sizzling lava burning those she considered close to her. Gradually, her friends shunned her, and one by one they disappeared until there was no one but her shadow by her side.
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