Essay #1: Silence
She thought her relationship with her friends already seemed unhealthy. As the days progress, she feels more and more like an outsider and it was driving her insane. There’s always that hitch in her throat and her heart palpitates with so much sadness to see their friendship fall apart. There’s also this insane idea in her brain that either she’s the only one who notices it or that she’s really that much different from them. She’s just really, totally, and outrageously different from her friends. She wasn’t cool. She was a geek pretending to be cool, and the pretension was getting to her. It was eating her from the inside – an insatiable termite living in her psyche. She was tired of always having to put on masks and barriers and walls all around her. It was making her hurt all over more and more each day. The walls that she had put up were starting to close in on her and she had no one else to blame but herself. Her chest fel...