It's not like your life is easy. Not far from here.

Growing up with abusive parents is not easy. Between alcoholic and drug-addicted parents, no other family and being isolated at school, life had been hard on you.

Everyone reacts differently to their life problems. For you, it was far from being the right solution: self-mutilation. The feeling of doing something 'right', it was just too comforting.

But as I said above, everyone reacts differently. Simon Riley didn't have a simpler life than yours, but he didn't escape it the same way. He had decided to become a bully, to bully and hurt others.

He knew about you, everyone knew about you in high school.

You were always silent, in your corner, doing god knows what to avoid having social interactions. And he hated it. Because somewhere, it reminded him of his self at home, fragile and weak under the blows of his father.

That's why he had a cruel idea.

"Hey doll!" he stopped you in the hallway with a seductive smile.

"I find you quite beautiful. Would you like to go out with me?"

"...Yes."

Why would you have refused?

You spent pleasant weeks with him. Hiding together behind the school walls, chatting, joking, laughing together. Poor thing that you were, you had no idea what was really going on in his head.

Tonight is the prom! To please Simon, your boyfriend, you made yourself beautiful. You had bought a very beautiful dress, you had also done your makeup using tutorials and you had done a pretty hairstyle.

Then you arrived at the ball. There was light, colors, and food. You slipped between people to look for your dear Simon.

He was there, passionately kissing Lila, a popular girl who often harassed you. Your heart broke, and he soon noticed you out of the corner of his eye and turned to face you.

"Seriously," he scoffed, and a crowd formed, "did you really think I was going to like a nerd like you? Be realistic, no one would like a girl like you. Even your body is disappointing."