Change is Coming
*Maddie* It is Monday. And the first day of school. I have been staring at this damn closet of mine for the last hour and a half, trying to do what was expected of me. Find clothes. Get dressed. Work a crowd. But all that happened was my mind telling me to move while my body refuses to listen. My body is covered in goosebumps as I sit on my bed in nothing but a towel. My aired dried hair fanned out around me in a curtain of thick layers as the ends of tickle my shoulders. I don’t remember the last time I attended the first day of school without Arielle... No. That's a lie. And I am tired of having to lie. I have lied so much in the last week that the stories are rolling off the tongue with ease, and that now, I am lying to
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