Thick as Thieves
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He wanted someone to notice that hidden beneath all the makeup, layered clothes, and practice-perfect smiles was bruises, bandaged cuts, and broken spirits waiting to heal. But he didn’t have time to wait. Time never waited for him and he knew he simply couldn’t rely on time or even hope for time to take pity on him. So, he would just cake on the makeup a shade too dark for his pale visible skin, he would layer on clothes to hide the signs of the carefully wrapped bandages that hugged his body, and he would wear the mask of the leader until his face was no longer a mirror reflecting how tired and broken he was. He would do it all so his friends didn’t worry more than they already had. He would do it so they didn’t feel an ounce of guiltiness and so that they wouldn’t feel compelled to watch the security footage he knew existed. He would do it all for them and he would do it all again if he had to, he would willingly chip away like cheap paint if he could shield them from the ugliness some adults carried in their hearts, if even just a little.
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- Part 1 of Thick as Thieves