lonelier than ever | a skins fanfic

I'm sick, mum says. She can't cope anymore. Nobody can. I'm polluting the house with my illness, and she's had enough with it. The thing is, my sickness isn't outward. It can't be fixed with quick and easy antibiotics. It's, quite literally, in my head. I'll be like this forever, and mum doesn't want anything to do with that anymore.

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Sylvia Grace Stonem, better known as Sylvie to her friends or Gracie to her nan (and sometimes Anthea), has been sent away from her home, Essex, to the middle of nowhere, Bristol, to live with her aunt. Her mum packed her off after a more recent 'episode' of hers, giving up on her. She fits in with her cousin Effy's lot, taking an eye for both Cook and Freddie. Will she choose? And will she make a choice without breaking her cousin's heart in the process?