Gemotions

The TV flickered, casting distorted shadows across the living room. Rachel absentmindedly scrolled through her phone, her attention drifting. A friend request from Jason "The Jerk" Jacobs. She stared at it, the blood draining from her face.

The memories flooded back: The relentless teasing, the public humiliation, the feeling of being constantly on edge. She felt a familiar hollowness in her chest, a phantom echo of the pain she’d endured. She threw the phone onto the couch, the sound of the plastic hitting the fabric jarring the silence. She needed to escape. Now. She grabbed her coat and went out into the night.