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TRIGGER WARNING!! Short Chapter (non edited)
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Annalise opens her eyes to see it's dark out. Guessing she fell asleep she gets up and a street lamp lights up the night just enough for her to see the side walk, which happens to be littered with a few leaves and grass that has grown between the cracks. Annalise grimaces at the fact that she has woken in the middle of the night and knows there defiantly won't be anymore sleep now.

She sits up and notices she hasn't changed so she gets up, walking to a small dresser tucked neatly in her far right corner and grabs a pair of panties then searches in the bottom drawer for a pair of her favorite pair of Nike Pros. Annalise walks out of her room and to the bathroom and sets down her clothes with a strange feeling she forgot something. Looking through her stuff one more time she realizes she forgot her a long sleeve.

Shit. Nice one Annalise!

She sneaks to her room and grabs a random sweatshirt from her closet and as she shuts the door a little brown wooden box falls to the floor. Annalise reaches down and just as she grasps it she seems to have unlocked all her worst nightmares. Memories flood through her mind a few even repeat just to tear deeper into her heart and soon she finds her self on the floor surrounded by little metal blades.

Slut.

Your wasting my oxygen!

Go die you suck!

Annalise grabs a small blade and presses to to her skin, dragging it across. Repeating again and again, even opening a few old cuts. Tears cascade down her sunken in cheeks, eyes are blood shot and swollen, her nose running, and sobs all escape as she realizes how horrible she is, yet again. Her blood flow is strong and constant, slowly killing her body without meaning to.

She leaves everything in the floor as she stumbles to the bathroom and struggles to climb in the tub. Turning on the water, Annalise feels dizzy and nauseated. Her clothes stick to her as they quickly are drenched by the scolding shower. After laying in the heat of the tub she stands up and begins peeling off her clothes and tossing them into the sink, one item at a time.

Annalise cleans off the blood and encases herself in strawberry sent bubbles while trying to regain her normality. Her breaths are ragged, wrists burn, and her head hurts but she sets it aside as she turns of the water and wraps the towel around her body very tightly, almost constricting. Stepping out of the steamy out reach of the tub, Annalise quickly slips on her comfy clothes then patches up her wrists with a two little squares of gauze, as her wrists still seem to seep out light traces of blood.

Annalise plops down on her bed and grabs her phone: 2 missed calls and 4 messages. The messages were from Emily and her mom, who had called her once; the other call was an unknown number so she didn't bother calling it back, not that she called her mom back, buts she did check the messages.

Emily Demintie
Hey! ~7/21

Emily Demintie
Um hi?~7/22

Emily Demintie
Sorry to bother you but there's a party tonight....you should come!! ~7/22

Emily Demintie
Oh & the address is 3450 Kickapoo RD 22436!! Hope to see you there ~7/22

The last three messages where from two hours ago. Looking at the time Annalise sees it is about five fifty-six in the morning, so not long from now her Aunt Judy would be up. That is if Annalise remembers correctly from visiting a few years back. She layed back on her bed and replied to Emily.

From: Ana Marie
Text me details on the party and I'm sorry I just checked my phone.

Annalise plugged her phone in then slipped on a pair of moo-moo house shoes. Walking downstairs with her noisy, but comfortable, shoes, she goes right to the pantry and digs around for something small. She spots a jar of Nutella and breaks out in a happy dance. Grabbing the jar then digging around for a spoon, Annalise busts open the jar and scoops out a heaping spoonful.

She places the spoon in her mouth then jumps up on the cabinet and finishes her spoon full of Nutella; the sudden flicker of the light cause Annalise to jump a little and then look right into her aunts hazel eyes. "Annalise? Why are you up?" The concern lightly laced through out her voice.

Annalise stays quiet for a moment until she sits up a little taller and smiles at her aunt, who she is still angry at, "I was just hungry."

"Oh." Judy glances to the spoon the Annalise is holding out to her left. "Well I know it's early but I figured today Mary could show you around."

"Um yeah maybe but tonight one of my friends from out here are coming to get me." Annalise wasn't sure if Emily thought they were friends but she didn't know what else to call her.

"Oh what's their name?"

Annalise narrows her eyes slightly and scoops more Nutella out of the jar then answers, "Emily. Emily Demintie."

"Oh! I work for her parents at Demintie's Private Recording Studio." Her aunt smiles almost mischievously.

"Okay? Congratulations?" Annalise pops off before taking another bite of the Nutella still resting on her spoon.

Her aunt turns away from her and starts some delicious smelling coffee, "Well if you truly mean that you will be extra sweet to Emily and possibly get me a raise."

Annalise's chin drops almost hitting the floor as she stares at her aunt. "You want me to use my only friend here just so you can get a dāmn raise? You have enough here! No!"

That bītch!

She turns while swiftly grabbing the Nutella and runs up the stairs to her room. Annalise looks around for a few moments before heading to one of the dressers to grab some fishnet leggings and a pair of black shorts. She quickly slips everything on, also noticing her shorts are getting a little big on her. Shrugging her shoulders and grabs a thin black cropped hoodie with the words Hang Over Hoodie printed across it.

Taking another quick bite of Nutella.

After brushing her hair and applying all of her makeup, Annalise grabs her phone, wallet, headphones, then her favorite Converse. Quickly slipping the shoes on and her wallet in a little leather bag, Annalise grabs the Nutella then rushed down stairs putting it back in the pantry; hollering out a quick "Goodbye!" to her aunt that was sitting in the living room.

After the door shuts Annalise jogs a little ways away so she knows her aunt won't bother her. Pulling her phone out of her back pocket, she hooks up her headphones and turns them up enough to drown out the worlds noise.
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Sorry I haven't been posting but times have been hard with school and I'm just stressing out right now.

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