PTSD?

Ayane, who was trying to escape reality, got a nightmare. The fangs of the nightmare couldn't touch her, as she escaped from it by returning to reality.

She was looking at the palm of her hand, while curling up even more on the floor. She didn't move an inch from there for those three days, except going to eat or the washroom. She was sitting there, at the corner of her room, waiting for death to come...

Beside her was a packet of painkillers, along with a bottle of water, her only company in this lonely world.

"I don't want to go... I will get bullied again...", she murmured.

"I haven't met Kanako-kun at all after the date... I wonder what he is doing..."

"What should I do... I want comfort..."

"I want someone to hide my tears..."

Tears fell off her cheeks to the dry ground. It didn't stop at all. The dry marks of the tears got embedded into her face, and her eyes got swollen.

"I want to meet him again..."

In this dark world, Kanako seemed to be the only light for her. He showed her the colours of the world and its amazing beauty. In the midst of this painful world, her heart wanted his warmth...

Her will to meet him overcame the pain, as she stood up with little courage after three days of silence. She didn't change her clothes at all for these three days. It was her same, pain old uniform.

"I probably stink..."

With the dull but heavy pain on her arm and her chest, she took up her backpack and went downstairs to go to school on the fourth day.

As she went downstairs, she heard a ring on the door.

"Who is it today at such a time?", she wondered, with blank eyes, devoid of a soul.

As she went down and opened the door, she scene she was presented with was so horrifying that she could withstand it, but her face didn't change, she she already lost her soul.

"I should kill my self. Why the heck I didn't jump thst day? I get it now... no matter what anyone says, today I am going to jump... sorry Kanako-kun, even if you try to stop me, I won't listen this time... this world is just a horrible lie.", she added to her wonder, she she looked up, with eyes that couldn't even cry even if they wanted to.

"What do you want today?", she asked.

"I see you are going to school! Such a nice girl!", the girl in front of her said.

"..."

Ayane looked away from her face.

"Ignoring me? Wow. I didn't expect that from you!", she said in a cheerful manner.

"Ayane-chan ayane-chan, are you, by any chance, depressed?", she added.

She got no reply.

"I guess you are. PTSD? Did your friends bully you again?", she said, before bursting out in laughter, "I thought you would commit suicide the last time I came, but I didn't think that you would get yourself a boyfriend! And going on dates too? You have some guts!"

In the midst of her saying these, the girl's real face presented itself.