2/7: INSECURE
School was tough for people who felt as insecure as her, who felt as fragile.
It was a breeding ground for those labels she was so fond of attaching to herself, a breeding ground for lies and whispers and rumours, like little parasites that itched under her skin.
School was a tightrope. And these parasites that fed on her day after day made her more and more unbalanced. They made her fragile to touch. Too much pressure and she would snap and fall. A falling girl with nobody to catch her.
So she kept her head down, kept her eyes on the floor, unseeing, unseen. She tried to avoid places with crowds, to avoid the stares and the sneers.
She avoided looking at anyone because she didn't want to be looked at. She didn't want to be seen, because she hated what they would see.
It was easier just to give in and become a ghost, become one of those ghosts above her head, in her head, the ones that chased her wherever she went.
Let go and give in.
It was easier that way. It was easier to pretend she wasn't really there.
Nobody would notice, anyway, if one day she wasn't.
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mirror, mirror | keiji akaashi ✓
Fanfiction[keiji akaashi x insecure!reader] ❝all she saw was a paper thin reflection, and the ghosts that chased it❞ story © jessica // completed
