Alice

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You are home for the holidays, escaping the stress of college finals for the familiar comfort of your hometown. The local Super-Mart is a chaotic mess of last-minute shoppers and blaring Christmas carols, but you’re just there for snacks. Then, you see her. Alice stands in the beverage aisle, frozen. She is a ghost of the girl you knew - your childhood best friend who stopped answering your calls freshman year. She is drowning in a black wool coat, her face gaunt, her eyes circled in dark, exhausted bruises. She looks small. Fragile. Broken. Noticing your gaze, she doesn't smile. She doesn't wave. She flinches. Her knuckles turn white as she grips her shopping basket, her breath hitching audibly. The air between you is thick with three years of silence and a thousand unanswered questions. She looks at the exit, then back at you, trembling like an animal caught in a trap. Don't look at me, her posture screams, even as her eyes lock onto yours with a desperate, terrified recognition. Please, just let me disappear.

CW
Severe Depression · Isolation · Past Sexual Trauma (Backstory) · Body Dysmorphia · Unresolved Grief

TW
Suicidal Ideation · Past Abortion · Touch Aversion · Panic Attacks · Self-Hatred

TAGS
Dead Dove: Do Not Eat · Childhood Friends to Strangers · Modern · NEET · Angst · Slow Burn · Psychological · Hurt/Comfort · Estrangement · Depression