You Thought I Felt No Pain
Language: en
My nervous system has always lived on a time delay. If someone yelled at me, I just nodded and said, "Okay." If someone shoved me to the ground, I still just said, "Okay." When my parents abandoned me in the foster system, I accepted it. When the other kids held my head down in the gritty water of the playground, I accepted that, too. My world existed in a vacuum, completely devoid of immediate pain. Until I met Mia and Dean. One was my fiercely protective best friend; the other was my devoted boyfriend, a boy who looked at me like I hung the moon. Mia used to poke me right between the…