Once there was a little girl. This girl was named Tilly and she was very much like other children. She had two feet, with ten toes. She had two hands, with five fingers each. She had a nose, a mouth, and a pair of eyes and ears. Her wavy blonde hair reached until just above her shoulders, of which she also had two. Tilly was very normal, but at the same time she was not. Her skin wasn't white, pink, brown or black; it was fiery red. That wasn't all. On her fiery red skin she had white little dots all over her. They almost looked a little bit like freckles. Sometimes, Tilly would start to count them, but she always lost count. There were simply too many, covering her from head to toe.
BOOK ONE in the Stolen mental health series.
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"You're kinda weird," she says after a minute, smiling softly as she takes a step towards the fiction section, "it's cute."
She possesses a type of attraction that goes overlooked at first, a beauty that makes you take a second glance at her on the streets. He was entranced by this, but he couldn't tell her.
Mara Gray is an enigma. The first you see of her will also be the last. The first thing to be noticed by Elias James as she explodes through the doors of the public library he works at, singing recklessly, making him wish he were deaf.
Elias James had his life flipped upside down two years ago and he hasn't spoken since. Not because he doesn't want to, simply, a defense mechanism he adapted. The last sound to leave his lips was a scream, and then he was speechless.
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This is the story of Bipolar Disorder and the aftermath of Sexual Assault, between two kids that find each other in the chaos of it all.
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