I woke up to the dull, gray ache of light spilling through thin pink curtains, the kind of light that felt too honest, It didn’t glow, It glared. I and my Bestie Mala's bedroom, if I could even call it that, was a cramped box of contradictions, bright pink walls, once painted in the innocent enthusiasm of girlhood, now dulled with neglect, I had thought of repainting it to a dark blue colour, but I had no money to even buy a bucket of paint, Posters of Justin Bieber my teenage crush still clung to the walls like ghosts of a time when hope came easily, and love was something you could pin above your bed. I blinked, my eyes gritty, my lashes crusted from dried tears my mascara smudged the corners of my lids like bruises I didn’t remember getting. it was no physical bruise, it's an emotional one . My body was stiff, my muscles sore, as though heartbreak came with physical consequences, and maybe it did. I lay still on the small bed I shared with Mala, my breathing shallow, trying to de
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