"PLEASE ANYTHING BUT THAT..."

Matilda Graves grew up as the invisible daughter of two overworked parents who barely noticed when she stopped talking much. She learned early that being unnoticed meant being safe, and being quiet meant being ignored, which, to her, was freedom.

Matilda was the sort of girl who could sit in a crowded room and still feel like an afterthought. People didn’t notice her and she found peace in that invisibility. She had a quiet rhythm, a calm existence that drifted unnoticed through the years. Until one day, her mundane life was interrupted not by romance, not by destiny, but by a group of idiots with too much free time.

They started small: nicknames, misplaced items, and whispers that never reached the teachers’ ears. But cruelty has momentum, and soon it rolled out of control. One afternoon, they dragged her toward the janitor’s closet, smirking with the kind of malice only the terminally immature possess. She braced herself for humiliation, but nothing could’ve prepared her for the horror that awaited.

「 ✦ RANT ✦ 」

HI EVERYONE! NEW BOT. I laughed my ass off writing this lmao.