I can't bring myself to recognize the girl I'm staring at. Through her glassy eyes you can see that she's no foreigner to pain, whether physically, emotionally or mentally. Her hard expression warns people that she doesn't take their shit. But, her friends are the only ones to help her unravel and step out of the room that's trapped her with all her struggles and pains; they get her through all her enigma. They are all she needs. I stare at this girl, and I see myself. I see someone who is strong and determined, someone who needs to love herself and believe that she can be loved. The tears roll down my cheeks as I realize that 'this girl' is Amiane Alana Rochester, a girl who's been through a shit-load of fuckery. * In medicine pain relates to a sensation that hurts. If you feel pain it hurts, you feel discomfort, distress and perhaps agony, depending on the severity of it. Pain can be steady and constant, in which case it may be an ache. It might be a throbbing pain - a pulsating pain. The pain could have a pinching sensation, or a stabbing one. To Amiane, pain is all of the above. Can she handle any of it? [Completed Monday March 28, 2016]

The government cares. Well, this area does. The Teenage Revolutionary Academy, or TRA, is a school that recruits teens, and intellectual preteens. It prepares them for dangerous situations in life; for the obvious, but unexpected. Then, it releases them into society, armed with a high tolerance for toxic chemicals, knowledge of how to make and destroy bombs and a different variety of instinctual reactions- the murderous kind. They are released with the reminders that they are to use their skills for the good of the world and that when the academy is ready, so should they. Cadence Illiana Amelia Anderson, or Maniac as the press says, was in the first, and only so far, batch of students that attended the TRA. She divides her time between 1: attending high school; acting out a normal life. And 2: embedding daggers or bullets with the initial 'M' into the flesh of people she gets hired to kill. Or those that annoy her, same thing to be honest. She lives, hyped up on adrenaline from killing, while waiting for a call from the TRA. A call that will ensure her skills are put to good use.