-𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄
ʳᵘᵉ ᵇᵉⁿⁿᵉᵗᵗ
"𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙩?"
-How a girl with PTSD only
finds comfort in the drug
addict she meets at her new
school.
(...ruexfe...
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lulu antariksa as... Lydia Mars
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trigger warning: this book will contain PTSD as well as paragraphs about school shootings. if, like the oc is for this book, it's a subject that is very triggering for you to read about, please don't risk your healing process by reading this book.
No one understood the reality of PTSD.
Lydia next did, it never crossed her mind much. She never imagined she could developed it, living a boring little life that only had drama when her parents got divorced. How could a boring girl from California, who did nothing aside eat lunch with her English teacher and read about her planets, be put into a situation so gruesome that it had her questioning if she even wanted to live.
September 9th destroyed Lydia Mars.
They try to teach you about school shooting, they try to get you prepared. No one ever took it seriously, because the chances were slim and everyone knew that if a shooter really did come into a school, no one would hide in a corner and wait for the police to show up. They'd run like hell, screaming and either get shot or make it out alive. Lydia couldn't blame people who thought that way, fight or flight was real after all.
No one realizes how traumatizing an experience like that truly is until you're put into a situation like that, though. School shootings are treated as a massive joke, a punch line, sometimes an insult. The kids that would joke about the shy kid, commenting how he'll pull a gun on them one day. A loud locker making someone laugh loudly and say it's a shooter. People from other countries that think they're insulting America by joking about how many shootings happened here. It was all some massive joke to everyone, something that isn't taken seriously, something that no one realizes people close to them are suffering from.
Only, a joke about something so serious, something that has killed people, something that leaves people with life long trauma, just wasn't funny. At least, not to Lydia. Especially after the accident back on September that changed her forever.
It wasn't until she met Rue Bennett, a former addict who was asking for a Xanax, that she ever felt any form of peace and safety ever again.
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kylie speaks
just here to educate y'all on your unfunny jokes about literal trauma and death as well as giving rue rue a better gf.
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