Chapter Seven: Blood Wurst

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TW: brief depiction self harm!!!

When I returned to school, there was a note tucked under the cushion of the piano seat. I was surprised to see it there. Who knows when :) wrote it? As I read his words, I felt a small tinge of hope.

"Dear :)

You will meet me one day, and when you do, you will be disappointed. I am a nobody, and you're better not getting involved. It's strange to think that you're a real person at all, :). Who would waste time writing notes to me? You must be rather strange. Or just naive."

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I held the note in my hands and ran my fingers over the torn edges. 'An outsider...' That's all The Pianist thinks he is. That could be true, but maybe not.

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Blood.

I've never actually done this before. I've always stuck to my cotton wool. This was a new kind of pleasure, innit. Seeing the red run down my skin like raindrops on a window pane.

"I've had it! I don't need you being in some kind of a mood right now!"

The words echoed through my mind. Why couldn't she understand? She'd been my mother for 17 years, this wasn't a bloody 'mood'. This was me every day, I just couldn't hide it today. It didn't matter to her that I have scars and fresh wounds under my clothes. It didn't matter to her that I'm breaking again and again. 

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