Before Anyone Noticed
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Aleenah has always been good at burying things, the fear, the sleepless nights, the version of herself no one gets to see. Not even the boy she loves, the one who somehow makes her feel both wanted and small in the same breath.
She tells herself it's fine. That love is supposed to be complicated. That everyone has something they don't talk about.
Her friends carry their own weight too. Christine, who smiles through hallways like nothing happens behind her front door. Timi, who numbs what he can't name. Aminah, who holds a truth about herself she isn't ready to say out loud, not even to the people closest to her.
Aleenah tells herself she's fine. That this is just what love feels like. It takes her far too long to see what everyone else already has.
Some things get noticed too late.
Some, she makes sure, never get noticed at all.
Until they do.
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