When No One is Watching

When No One is Watching

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"Don't ask me 'what's up'. Don't act like your inquiry on the perpetual irrelevance of everything is anything more than polite. Don't ask me how my day was or tell me I looked pretty with my hair tied back. Ask me why my eyes are red. Ask me about why I always bite my lip when someone drops their books too loudly. Ask me why I don't smile. I don't waste my time with conversational bullshit. I want to know why you choke down lies, or why they don't make you choke at all. I want to know what makes you human. What makes you dead. I want to know everything you're too scared to tell yourself. If you can't handle that, then do me a favor; don't waste my time." Stacy wasn't someone Beck would describe as 'pleasant'. Crude, vain and borderline psychotic, sure. But not pleasant. They've grown up in the same class, in the same neighborhood, in the same town their whole lives and in all that time, Beck never felt any burning desire to get to know Stacy. But one night, Beck finds himself out of his scene. First in line for valedictorian, captain of the lacrosse team and A-1 mama's boy does not belong on 34th Hinder street, but perhaps the inevitable crisis that is 'what next' took too hard a grasp, and with a beer in one hand and some guys collar in the other, Beck decides that not everything he strived so hard for was all that really mattered. And maybe, the girl with the doe-eyes and army jacket had all the answers.
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The world expected her to be perfect. She was the eldest, the responsible one, the overachiever who always had the answers. But beneath the polished grades and the forced smiles was a girl who barely held herself together. A girl with too many expectations crushing her chest, with anger simmering just beneath the surface, with a loneliness that no one ever noticed. Her mother barely acknowledged her existence. Her father, from miles away, drowned her in concern she didn't know how to handle. And in between, she was left to figure everything out on her own. At school, she was untouchable-the top student, the girl who never failed, the one who always had her hand raised first. People admired her, envied her, but none of them really knew her. Not the way she knew them. She had a habit of reading people, of dissecting their words, their actions, their lies. It was easier that way-keeping them at arm's length, never letting anyone too close. And then there was him. The boy who was just as smart, just as untouchable. The one who walked the halls like he owned them, like the world bent to his control. Cold, calculating, always five steps ahead. The boy who hated losing. And so did she. That was the problem. Because when you put fire and ice together, someone was bound to get burned. And she refused to be the one left in ashes.

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