Thefriendlessperson
"I'm not tired. Tired, is for people who can afford to fail."
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Matilda Pierce has it all-except herself.
Seventeen-year-old Matilda Pierce is a field hockey legend in the making: beautiful, brilliant, and unstoppable. At her elite boarding school, she's worshipped for her talent, envied for her perfect life, and envied even more for her picture-perfect romance with the school's golden boy hockey captain. But behind the flawless exterior lies a girl unraveling.
Matilda lives by rules-hers. Rigid routines, spotless perfection, relentless discipline. Her obsessive drive to be the best keeps her at the top... but it's also destroying her. Her body is breaking. Her mind is cracking. And no one can know, because the moment she slips, her entire identity might come crashing down.
Caught between a toxic relationship, the pressure to perform, and a coach who fuels her darkest instincts, Matilda must choose: keep chasing the version of herself the world demands-or finally figure out who she really is when the stick drops and the mask falls away.
A gripping, emotionally raw story about ambition, identity, and the brutal cost of perfection.