This is the second part of the collab story between me and Nic, @FlaggleNerd VStoryV I walk through the school hallways, with thoughts spinning in my head, not necessarily bad thoughts or overwhelming thoughts, just constant thoughts. I can tell the lack of sleep is sprawled across my face, at some point I may have tried to cover it up, the look of someone who's given up, but not so much anymore. I look tired, and I suppose I am tired, but it's a heavy tired that I have become used to, a tired that rests on your shoulders and never lifts, one that comes from not just lack of sleep, but from lack of caring. From a lack of motivation. It comes from the homework I sweep aside every night. It comes from the door that is always closed that locks me in my room for hours. From laying in bed for those hours until the a.m., where sleep finally takes me. It comes from not being able to smile at my friends jokes anymore. It comes from not replying to any of their texts anymore, it comes from all of those things and so much more. I can feel the weight on my mouth when a teacher in the hallway tells me to smile, and all I can muster is a neutral look of peace. As I make my way to class, pretending not to hear the teachers' greetings, a hazy cloud of grey rests in my mind, as the monotonous autopilot of the school day kicks in.
