Stretch Marks | on hold

prologue

My therapist told me today
that I should write out
everything that has ever
affected me, up until
the current time.
It's some kind of therapy,
she's told me,
to look back on
what you've done in the past,
all the things you've gone through,
and see how you've improved
and overcome the things
that you never thought you would.
It's a way to show yourself
that the things that
seem like they'll destroy you
at the time
really are only temporary.

I agree with her,
sort of.
It's a pain to write out
every little thing, though,
especially when I have
every last awful moment
stored up in my head,
just waiting to come out
in nightmares and hateful thoughts
to torture me
again and again.
But maybe this will
help that, too.
Maybe, if I finally
let everything out
in writing, it will
stay out of my mind
for good.
It's worth a shot,
right?

So, okay,
here goes nothing,
I suppose.
The following is the story
of my freshman year of high school,
and all the problems that came
along with it.
I'm not going to promise
that it's anywhere near pleasant,
or that anyone who
might stumble across this notebook
won't hate me for
the person I became
during that time,
or the things I did
because I couldn't
see any other way.

If you're reading this, Sage,
I just want you to know
that you have always
meant everything
to me.

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Hey guys, new story! As you can see, it's going to be written in the same poetic format that the Misnomer series and Complications have been, because apparently I can't write any other way. Well, I can, but this is fun in its own way.

That aside, I really hope you guys enjoy this. It's going to be addressing topics that I feel very strongly about, and pulling from my own experiences as well. I'm not going to say exactly what is based on my own life in this story, but it will influence how I write the story, because I can't see any other way to portray it. I'm not going to sugarcoat anything, basically. Besides language, of course, but that's something else entirely.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy! <3