Growing Pains

By actuallyitsmonica

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In the day-to-day trenches of high school, it is almost the default-setting to believe we are the main charac... More

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Chapter 1 - Making it to school was an inevitable defeat
Chapter 2 - First impressions were everything
Chapter 3 - I was winning at life
Chapter 4 - We got in trouble
Chapter 5 - Same old shit but a different day
Chapter 6 - There was nothing tempting about a bad boy
Chapter 7 - Life was a favor I was doing someone else
Chapter 8 - I didn't feel inspired
Chapter 9 - I had lunch with no one
Chapter 10 - I don't really follow crowds
Chapter 11 - Your secret's safe with me
Chapter 12 - I believe you had something to tell me
Chapter 13 - This was a hostile work environment
Chapter 14 - This is a waste of my time
Chapter 15 - You don't think school is a machine of oppression?
Chapter 16 - She was going to regret this
Chapter 17 - I was having a fever dream
Chapter 18 - I was going to have the worst night of my life
Chapter 19 - Life had given me so much anger
Chapter 20 - A liar just like me
Chapter 21 - The sun wasn't the only star in the universe
Chapter 22 - It was just a dream
Chapter 23 - He made being alive seem very easy
Chapter 24 - Pretending until it became true
Chapter 25 - He was being ridiculous
Chapter 26 - We were on top of the world
Chapter 27 - I had to apologize
Chapter 28 - You just need to calm down
Chapter 29 - Life was both beautiful and devastating
Chapter 30 - I felt like passing out
Chapter 31 - I just had no real interest in being alive
Chapter 32 - I punched him in the face
Chapter 33 - All boys were liars
Chapter 34 - All I wanted in life was to make her laugh
Chapter 35 - I thought she was a force of nature
Chapter 36 - You really are a mystery to me
Chapter 37 - I just wanted to get on her nerves
Chapter 38 - It's not supposed to be funny
Chapter 39 - Hello, I'm trying my best
Chapter 39 - I needed the validation
Chapter 41 - I was having a bad day
Chapter 42 - I'm plagued by childhood trauma
Chapter 43 - Of course I remembered
Chapter 44 - Carrying all that anger around
Chapter 45 - Something's wrong all the time
Chapter 46 - I'm a secret to myself
Chapter 47 - I had no idea who I was
Chapter 48 - I had grown up an inconvenience
Chapter 49 - Life had a way of making me lose my footing
Chapter 50 - Writing was an out of body experience
Chapter 51 - Both mentally and physically, I was as good as dead
Chapter 52 - I had made a personality of being laughed at
Chapter 53 - I was a hoax
Chapter 54 - You watch too many chick-flicks
Chapter 55 - There was nothing between us
Chapter 56 - My life had become a page-turner
Chapter 57 - Life has given me nothing but the worst of it
Chapter 58 - I want the world to end before I have to become something
Chapter 59 - Nothing made sense anymore
Chapter 60 - It was hope, wasn't it?
Chapter 61 - We just wanna be real
Chapter 62 - You know everything except yourself
Chapter 63 - Thank you for your interest in joining life
Chapter 64 - I forgot what I was waiting for
Chapter 65 - Wanting what I couldn't have
Chapter 66 - It had always been inappropriate to be happy
Chapter 67 - You're not someone people forget
Chapter 68 - To be proved wrong and be made an optimist
Chapter 69 - Desperate, unbearable hope
Chapter 70 - I was the worst person in the world
Chapter 71 - Being with her was the one thing I was really good at
Chapter 72 - Apathy had kept its grip on me
Chapter 73 - I was my own worst enemy
Chapter 74 - Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Chapter 75 - It's good to know that life is good
Author's Note

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