Chapter 1: The Fear of the Page ​

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Dear Nini,

​It's me, Eve.
​You know, I've never been insecure about my looks. My friends dissect their height, their hair, their weight-but I've always felt perfectly intact. I genuinely love the face I present to the world.
​But that outer confidence is a lie. Inside, I am petrified of showing my feelings.
​I used to be a torrent of words. I needed to write everything down, a compulsive urge to map out my inner life. Now, I'm choked by fear. I'm even afraid of writing this, right now-a paralyzing thought: What if someone finds it? They cannot see the weakness beneath the shell.
​His brutal words are a constant, metallic clang in the hollow of my chest:
​"No boys like this kind of person."
"You always write things down to manipulate me."
"It's all an act. You're desperate for attention."
​There are worse things he said. And now, I realize I'm not just afraid-I'm shattered by the thought of revealing that vulnerable side again. I am meticulously building a prison around myself, brick by careful brick, just to stop the catastrophic feeling.
​Eve dropped her pen as if it had burned her, leaving an inky streak on the open diary page. Writing is a relentless habit, but she can no longer tell if it's a desperate escape or just another chamber in her self-built cage. It's a closed, soundproof room where she never has to deal with the terrifying honesty of the outside world. No one, absolutely no one, is allowed in.
​People talk about life's ups and downs-how some make you strong, and some leave you weak. But they miss the third, most lethal result. Some incidents make you hollowed out from the core. They leave you a traitor to yourself. You become too terrified to even think a thought that might hurt you again.
​Sometimes, we distance ourselves from others, not because we are done with them, but because we are terrified of what they might do to the fragments we have left.
​Eve is one of them-a girl exquisitely broken by her own honesty.

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Don't know where this story will end don't have any plot. Just feeling like to vent on somewhere.


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