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Adelaine Colbert, a seventeen-year-old college dropout, family failure and socially awkward. After dropping out of college and destroying her parents' dreams and ambitions she has a plan. Get a job...
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"A single moment of misunderstanding is sometimes so poisonous that it makes us forget within a minute the hundred lovable moments spent together."
Showers have always been the best part of each day. It had always been some kind of escape route from all things crazy, me especially. It could have been the way you could feel the hot water droplets fall down your body like water down a waterfall or maybe the sounds of the quite clashes of the water as they hit the rock bottom. Or perhaps the loneliness which was something which made showers far more enjoyable then everyone made them out to be. The solitude and sounds of your own deep breaths as you inhale and exhale without a care in the world for once, even if it was only a few minutes.
I walked leisurely into the shower, steam filling the room as she put the shower on and my bare toes curled in delight like a baby who had just had its first bath. I slammed shut the shower door locking me between the four walls that were surrounded in steam and water droplets everywhere. I bathed my skin lightly rubbing the green tea and mint shower gel that engulfed my fragile body in a tranquil atmosphere.
Suddenly something slipped down my face. Actually, more than just one thing. Many of them.
Tears. And before I knew it quiet sobs escaped from my mouth and I held my hand against my quivering lips in hope that the familiar noises that were escaping my mouth would just quieten down or even better just stop the whole nonsense before anyone could hear my pleads for help, not that my family would understand anyway.
Nobody understands.
Nobody has and nobody will.
"You are alone in this mess, you brought it all on yourself," voices in my head echoed making my mind twirl and twist like a hurricane on a stormy night. I rubbed my eyes and took a deep breath. I stopped for a second.
And then I slid down the shower wall only to be left in vulnerability inside the four walls which enclosed my secrets and trapped me inside. I cried and I cried letting out the feeling that had been bugging me and tugging me down this whole week.
Perhaps it was the stress of everything and nothing at the same time. Inside, I knew it was everything that led up to these breakdowns: expectations, parents, jobs, the unknown future that laid ahead of me on a silver platter waiting to be lifted and be thrown right in my face. However, on the outside it was nothing.
Nobody physically harmed her. Nobody hit or slapped her. Nobody did any physical harm to her. Emotional? For sure but that's a whole other story. One that shouldn't be told.
