| Highlacester Series • 1 |
There's some love in this city;
There's a lot of blood.
Broken by life and growing up homeless, Lex is getting day by day solely with sarcasm, cigarettes and the need to prove those that think she can't survive for long wrong. At 14 years old, Lex is too mature for her own good, and knows of the horrors people miss out in fairytales.
In Highlacester, the best fighter is the most famous, the best gang has the best fighters, best ammo and most kills; as well as the best gang rules the streets.
The whole city is anarchy.
It is the last city. The war destroyed everything but this one city. It even destroyed parts of the city, but now people just live under the rubble as their home.
And Lex? She hides from the past. Insanity has finally caught up, but she knows her old self is inside her. Her inner voice is her old self, before she became 'Artemis', the best fighter on the streets that nobody can find, not even her lifelong friend.
Mature content: includes strong language and violence
𝙵𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚗-𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛-𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛'𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑.
𝙷𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜-𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛-𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝, 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛.
𝙰𝚜 𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎'𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚛 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜, 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚏 𝚜𝚑𝚎'𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐.
⋆。゚☁︎。⋆。 ゚☾ ゚。⋆⋆。゚☁︎。⋆。 ゚☾ ゚。⋆⋆。゚☁︎。⋆
╰┈➤ "You're just mad because you have to deal with me," I whispered, the words slipping out before I could stop them. "You have to be responsible for me. I'm just a burden."
Cole's voice was quiet but firm coming from next to me. "Flo, that's not true. You're not a burden. We're just... worried about you. This isn't who you are."
I could feel his eyes on me, searching for a connection, something to make me see reason, but all I felt was anger bubbling up inside me.
"Yeah, well... I'm sorry for that," I said, my voice wavering. "Maybe you'd all be better off without me."