EMMY

Pressure.

It’s something Emmy felt for the first time in high school. It was late to feel that in your life but she had always been a pretty care-free person. Boy, if she could only see herself and her bitten to the core nails now.

She was fifteen and back then the school she went to didn’t really know what the kids were up to. So she and a group of friends – or so she called them back then – were talking about boys when all of sudden one of them pulled out a pack of cigs. They started giggling like only school girls can do and she still remembers the way her heart pounded in her chest. She couldn’t help thinking of her mother and how she’d hit her at that moment if she knew what she was doing. She hesitated as they handed it around.

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