Bad Genius

Bad Genius

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*"This... feels like a bad idea..." "Yeah... a really bad idea..." But still, his hands were touching my body and his mouth was so close to mine.* Maya knew the cost of escape. Every late night, every skipped meal, every dizzying panic attack was a down payment on a dream: a scholarship to the capital's most elite university, a one-way ticket out of her suffocating small town. She pushed until her body screamed, until her vision blurred, until the world spun into a terrifying darkness. And it worked. She got in. Moving into the cramped, crumbling student residence for the "less fortunate" was supposed to be her fresh start, her hard-won victory lap. The moment everything finally, truly, finally began to get better. She was wrong. So, so wrong. The capital is colder, the university is a brutal, pointless grind, and her new "home" is a decaying relic of broken promises. And living just across the hall, a constant, infuriating reminder of everything she isn't, is him. A prodigy who skipped years, a walking, talking, arrogant genius who makes her blood boil. He's everything she despises, and the feeling is fiercely mutual. Maya fought to get here, but now, her carefully constructed future is crumbling, and her biggest obstacle might just be the infuriatingly brilliant enemy she's forced to live with. This isn't the fresh start she dreamed of. This is war.
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Maya

Maya has spent five dreadful months in the psychiatric hospital recovering. Once she finally is released she is forced back into her boring life. But will things really be so boring still when she meets 'bad-boy' Noah Dalton? He is annoying, rude and always around Maya for reasons she can't understand. Maya is brave, yet also afraid that her choices could lead her spiralling back into a bad place again. Will Noah be able to save her from herself? Or will he be the cause of her destruction? ---------------------------- ~Noah's pov~ 'These,' I slowly run my finger across one of her scars, 'are fucking beautiful.' Before she can object, I carry on. 'Maya you are beautiful beyond perfection. You are strong. You are brave. You are funny. You are sweet. You are incredible. Look at yourself,' I nod down towards the scars on her arm and she slowly glances down at them before meeting my gaze again, 'those scars are beautiful. Do you know why?' I ask her. She wipes a tear from her already tear-stricken face before she shakes her head. 'Because every time you decided to do that to yourself, you didn't go further, you didn't end your life. You decided to carry on living even when you thought you couldn't manage it. Those scars right there,' I gesture to them again, 'show the battles you won against yourself. They are your battle-scars and you shouldn't be ashamed of them. And you know what? I am so proud of you for making it to where you are today because you are a fighter and If I can see that, anyone can.'

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