Gemotions

From the moment she read the message, Amelia felt a chill that settled deep in her bones. The scholarship. Gone. Erased. Reassigned. She felt a profound emptiness, a void where hope used to reside.

The joy she once had for the curriculum had vanished. She stopped participating in class. She stopped going to office hours. The campus, once so vibrant, now seemed hostile and unwelcoming.

She began clenching her hands so hard that her fingernails dug into her palms. She would wake up in the middle of the night, gasping for air, her heart pounding.

She felt like she was drowning.