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There was a girl who hadn’t felt the ground beneath her feet in days.
She drifted through hours like smoke, invisible and weightless — like the world moved without her, and she let it.
Lately, she had been smiling more. Not wide, not radiant, but softly, like maybe she believed, for once, that the storm had passed. The shadows in her mind had gone quiet — not gone, but quiet. She even stopped leaving marks on her skin, like tiny wars she didn’t want to fight anymore.
But peace, for her, never stayed long.
It took just a whisper of pain — sharp or soft, she couldn’t tell — and suddenly the walls she’d built with shaky hands collapsed.
She was back to being the girl who smiled only with her fingers tugging at the corners of her lips.
Back to quiet sobs in silence, hands trembling, heart too loud and too hollow all at once.
Back to blades and bruises and pretending she wasn’t breaking.
Her body, too, had grown tired of fighting. She was always hurting — sick in ways no one really saw. This morning, she couldn’t even stand. Her limbs refused, her stomach twisted in rebellion. But there was no softness in the voice that called her name. Only anger. Only insults.
Tears fell — and for that, she was punished. A kick. A slap. A command to be quiet.
So she was.
She told her sister she was okay. Told her she didn’t need to worry.
But just in case…
Just in case the night grew too heavy, she left her a message:
“If anything ever happens, just remember… I loved you.”
And that was all.
No one noticed that it was her goodbye. No one noticed until it was too late.
No one saw her fall apart. But if you looked closely,
you’d notice a girl, who stood still in a world that never asked her if she wanted to keep going.