Stick and Pokes

She has branded herself in order to feel something more than emptiness. Small reminders of her past mistakes litter her skin. It roots her to the traumas making sure when she's barely conscious on the bathroom floor she can look down and remember what has brought her there. Constant inner turmoil clouds her mind with flashes of self hatred bursting through like lightning.

She doesn't intentionally drown herself in her demons, she can resist it. It is the people surrounding her that choose to neglect her and allow her mind to swallow her.

That is until she meets him and all of his little friends.

And it all started with a stupid, little stick and poke.