INFERNO · obx

Since she was born, Sadie Maybank had felt different. The way people looked at her, the way her father made her feel like a liability, the way her brother treated her like something he didn't want to deal with and just did because he was told to.

Her family had always been out of reach, as if her fingertips faded through their hands like a cloud. She didn't belong. Never had. The world wasn't hers, she was just living in everyone's else's.

She had always been alone. Perched up on the swing-sets alone. Ate lunch during recess alone. Walked along the beach alone. Just always, awfully alone.

She had always been. Until she wasn't. Until hope, care, family - one with no biological blood, just familiarity and the lingering feeling of safety that sat beneath her chest - clasped her hands together and made her feel like she belonged.

But even then, beneath the surface of false truth, biting secrets tended to leave marks.

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