"Miss Beifong, you've been up here since yesterday. You're lucky Mrs. Beifong let you miss school today." Alicia, one of the maids spat at the young girl in bed. "All you teens do is mope and act like your life is so hard. Look at you, you're sitting in this filth!-"
"You think going to high school is so~ difficult! Especially with all your little friends believing that that little band will get you somewhere." Alicia snorts. "Well, I'm here to tell you, the real world is going to eat you up and spit you out ali-"
"Get out."
Alicia's heard turns towards the lump of blankets that just spoke, "Excuse me?"
"GET THE FUCK OUT! YOU HEARD ME! GET OUT!"
Alicia quickly picked up her things and ran out of Toph's room.
Toph removed the blankets from her head, finally revealing herself. Her usually tamed hair was disheveled, undereye bags dark and prominent. Her skin looked sickly as her body temperature ran cold.
She wore an oversized dark blue and black graphic tee, reminding her of a certain senior who caused her heart to ache. She sat up in her bed, bending and hugging her knees.
She felt so... drained?
Drowning in the feeling of emptiness.
Alicia's words had cut her deep. She had been moping in her room for the past couple of days, doing nothing except for crying, homework, and then crying some more.
