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I NEED AN OPINION ON THIS!!
I’m here, and I’m not leaving~
[CHAPTER 1]
Life wasn’t always easy for Freya. It was complicated. The only thing she felt was that overwhelming burn in her chest and the waterfall of wet tears running down her cheeks every night. School wasn’t as hard as it was at home, alone in her room. She had Kylie, Malia and Dara by her side and would sit with all of her friends. She shared classes with most of them, a common person in her classes was Malachi. The centre of attention. Captain of the football team. Every girl’s dreams and delusions. Freya had known him quite a while, he was nice and seemed understanding like you would want to hug him. Freya admired that about him, she would spend Tuesday afternoons during maths gazing at him.
But it wasn’t always easy. Freya was a sensitive one. The way she flinched whenever an argument bursted, or the way she’d zone out all of a sudden, leg bouncing. Malachi noticed all of it. The way she tensed up at Mk’s loud remarks. The way she’d look away when someone would talk about their parents being amazing and always there, or how their boyfriend put them to sleep that night and they were wrapped up in a warm embrace. Freya has experienced the lot. The whole relationship stage. It didn’t quite work out for her. It made her hesitant whenever she’d talk to another boy because he made her feel in a way that she was not enough. Even her parents, not caring at all. Arguing about the most minor things whenever she got home, and blaming each other on how Freya is.
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Freya admired that about him, he never cared what anyone would say. He was just- his own person. she would spend a lot of her lesson time gazing at him.
But it wasn’t always easy. Freya. When voices rose, even slightly, her shoulders tensed, her leg would bounce, she would tap her pen faster and faster until the noise sickened her. Malachi noticed all of it.
He noticed when she flinched when someone was too loud. He noticed the way she went quiet when conversations turned to family. The way she looked down, tracing invisible patterns on her notebook when someone mentioned “home” like it was something safe. He noticed how she hesitated when people got too close, like she was bracing for something that never quite came.
Freya has experienced the relationship stage. It didn’t quite work out for her. It started off with late night talks, and soft words that then twisted into expectations, comparisons, control and silence that said more than anything else. It made her hesitant anytime she would talk to someone or get close to them. Even her parents, not caring at all. It was loud. Doors were shut harder than they were meant to be. Blames flew back and forth until one stayed quiet. But she still put on a mask everyday.
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School was easier. Not better just bearable. At lunch, she would sit with Kylie, Malia and Liv. She laughed when she was supposed to, nodding along to conversations she didn’t pay attention to.
She just seemed like a normal girl. In class, she blended in, just another face, another name in the register. But there was one person people seemed to orbit around.
Malachi. He didn’t try to be the centre of attention. Which somehow made it worse. It was the way people leaned in when he spoke, His natural charisma just shining through the light.
Freya had known him quite a while, he was nice and seemed understanding. Like that one time in english, Freya dropped her pen which rolled until it hit Malachi’s foot. “Here.” He says,picking it up and kindly giving it to her, a small, warm smile tugging at his lips.
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Tweaked it abit!!
Life had never felt simple for Freya . Most nights, she lay awake staring at the faint cracks on her wall. A dull ache spreading through her chest and tears slipping into her hairline.
The house was never loud in the way other homes were. It was sharp, tense as if it were waiting for something to snap.
Even the silence felt heavy.
Voices carried through the thin walls. The kitchen light flickered casting uneven shadows.
