Did you hear it? The sound of shattering tears falling onto the vacant sheets. The screaming whisper of the voices bouncing around her mind. Did you hear it? The battle inside as she begs for just a moment of peace. Did you hear it? Her pain. Her anguish as you chose, not her, but another. Did you hear it? Her quiet pleading eyes, her soft sob, her deafening disappointment.
The thing is, even if you did, you didn't listen. Nobody listens. Nobody hears her beg for help, for love, for just once to be okay. Nobody hears her dreams or her hopes. Nobody cares anyway, because she's just a nobody.
And it eventually fades into an asylum of broken and destroyed. A heart, a mind, a soul. A girl who gives up, and numbs her life until one day she just stops. Stops caring, stops hurting, stops breathing.
Did you hear it? The blade as it cut. The gun as it shot. The drug as it infected. The pain... as it ended. Did you hear it?
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