I’m trapped, I thought to myself, feeling my resolve seep back into my veins at a rapid pace, I’m all alone. I felt snared, fucking cornered. Surrounded by liars and cheats, I couldn’t turn my back for a goddamn second. Exhausted from fighting a war I would never win, and cut open from betrayal, I struggled to rein in my tumultuous thoughts. Nothing made sense anymore. It felt like everyone was out to get me. I couldn’t trust a goddamn soul, that was for sure. Help wasn’t available for people like us, with families like ours. We were fucked, royally screwed, and I was too broken to keep these
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