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This is a short story that deals with many issues teenagers struggle with today, like depression, self-image, self-worth, anxiety, domestic violence, drug addiction, popularity, bullying, cold parents, single parents.

It's one day, one piece of big news, written from the perspective of three completely different girls: Arden, the "bad girl", Anneliese, the "quiet fat girl", and Alicia, the "popular girl", but behind the image projected to their classmates is a world of emotional struggles no one would ever guess they went through.

I wrote this to explore characters I've never fully understood and in a way that makes those who read it (hopefully) realise there's so much more to people than who they present themselves to be, and maybe, just maybe, if we can open our eyes we might not be so quick to judge and label our fellow classmates anymore.

I hope the story rings true to those who actually suffer from such situations, and I hope it touches all your heart strings...