All her life the lights have been blinding, around her almost every hour. Hospitals, sunlight, fluorescent. The only hours she gets in the dark by herself is when everyone is finally asleep, sure she'll be tired, but it would have been so worth it to live in the dark for a while. This is why she likes the darkness, simply because it's what she likes. People call her emo and goth for how she dresses because it's more black than white, but what they fail to see is that she doesn't have to be like them to be human.
