Cherophobia

Description

So here we go, another tale of teen losing all sense of motivation and care in the world. Winnie Foster's father has uprooted her life enough times for her to finally understand his unspoken message.

That nothing is forever & nothing comes without consequences.

Especially love.

Once again with yet another move to yet another small town he has reinforced this singular life lesson, well- unless you count his helping her discover the productivity a human is capable of when self-imposed isolation is taken as a lifestyle, but that's irrelevant to the point we're trying to make here. 

And yet, as cliche as it is, this wouldn't exactly be getting written if this particular town wasn't different than the others. It wouldn't be getting written had she not met someone who actually seems to care. Even after all the walls and clear warnings Winnie's put up to keep him and all others out. So can one go so far as to ask if this boy, this small-town, kind natured boy, this Landon character, possibly be able to bring her back into the world of the sociably living? Could he help show her that feeling things, things that don't just consist of anger and hate and temporary, artificial relief- easily mistaken as happiness, don't need to be pushed away & feared because of the painful consequences of feeling them that may follow.

Or will Winnie help him conquer his own unique and very different to her own, yet somehow similar case of the crippling fear? Can she help to teach him that you don't need to live your life in a constant state of trying to please others? That doing what you want, just because you want to, isn't, contrary to popular belief, really all that wrong. That in order to keep at least some of your sanity, the parts of it you need to remain sane enough to function while not so sane as to be boring, of course, you need to be selfish sometimes. Not just for the sake of having pure and careless fun, but for that happiness you get that comes from doing something simply for you, simply because you want to.

Both Winnie and Landon, though different as day and night, not only in the way their unfortunate fear effects them but also in just about everything else, could learn how to conquer it themselves, and maybe even save each other as well.

And as all of this plays out, these ups and downs and twists and turns, Winnie cannot ignore the thoughts constantly playing in the back of her head since she met him; whispering to her, reminding her about what can and likely will happen if she lets him in. It's possible he could be some noble lifeline that helps bring her back from the self-sentenced isolation where she lives, or where she survives would be a more accurate description. Oh and maybe he could even help her understand who she truly is and make her a better version of herself, you know- like how they do it in those gooey novels you wish you're life was based on.

But they also never cease in the whispers of what is the far more likely, some may argue even unavoidable outcome of the actual events and changes she could experience because of this boy.

She knew that as time was fleeting as dramatically as ever that she could, in reality, lose everything to this boy. Including the one thing that has just narrowly missed being corrupted and shattered in its entirety without hope of repair, what she lives in fear of as she keeps it hidden from the world.

Herself.