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It had been mere hours since the realisation struck, but she felt she'd spent years trapped under a rock. Her mother's expectations and her father's anger... They'd forgotten her; she was now only a big fat F on a test sheet.
The maw of her bag invited possessions like an old friend. She filled it with black. They hated it when she wore black. She'd leave her coloured clothes for them. From now, she was funeral colours.
The thing is, no one would know. They'd cry for the person they wanted to be, but she was as much of an illusion as that slimming green party dress. They'd never know who they'd really lost; their tears would be for a figment of their imagination.
She took one last look at the life she couldn't change, then dropped out of comfort into the real world.

She began her lonely road away from them, and the sky wept for her sodden footsteps.

Description
It had been mere hours since the realisation struck, but she felt she'd spent years trapped under a rock. Her mother's expectations and her father's anger... They'd forgotten her; she was now only a big fat F on a test sheet.
The maw of her bag invited possessions like an old friend. She filled it with black. They hated it when she wore black. She'd leave her coloured clothes for them. From now, she was funeral colours.
The thing is, no one would know. They'd cry for the person they wanted to be, but she was as much of an illusion as that slimming green party dress. They'd never know who they'd really lost; their tears would be for a figment of their imagination.
She took one last look at the life she couldn't change, then dropped out of comfort into the real world.

She began her lonely road away from them, and the sky wept for her sodden footsteps.