Reality for her didn't feel real at all. The lives in movies and TV shows felt more real than whatever this sequence of experiences was. Simple and familiar things weren't as easy to comprehend. No one knew this. No one knew that the she stayed up at night to think of what caused the switch in her mind to turn off. Her parents didn't know that she talked to strangers online late at night because those conversations were real, not consisting phrases like, " Are you okay?" Her big brother, now getting ready for college, didn't realize that she stopped dreaming for the bigger things in life because she knew she would never be able to get there. No one at school realized that she didn't have any motivation to do homework, to attend class, and to breathe. She was the most well-known in school, not for being a cheerleader or a preppy brat but because she gave everyone hope, hope that they were worth more than the price they gave themselves. No one knew that Thea Sailors didn't want to live.
