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sliding across her phone screen a definite preference over all social interaction. On some days, their indifference didn’t sting so much. This wasn’t one of those days. Sat in the centre of a circle of strangers, her mother’s blood tying her to them, keeping her bobbing back and forth like a boat tied to the port, uncertain of which way the current would take it, but never able to fully escape its clutches. Sat in the centre of the circle, with the word pariah tattooed on her forehead. The room was bubbling with conversation, stories tinged at the edges with a feeling she could discern as nostalgia, despite it not being her own. Words floated over her head, curved around the edges of her body, edges that had softened from years of rubbing others the wrong way. Words meant for everybody’s ears but hers. Music blared in the background, the only sound truly intended for her hearing, so she chose to focus on it. She heaved herself backwards, out of the circle that felt like a void, and hissed a sigh of relief at the feeling of the cool, solid wall against her back, weary from trying to hold her head up high. Back to the music. A cousin’s choice, and foreign to her ears. Her mind torn, yet again, between feigning indifference and mustering another attempt at retiring from her long-standing post as the reject. A quick Google search did the trick. Music? Every Other Freckle, Alt-J. Smart, or just sad? She mouthed the lyrics as she scanned the screen words that accompanied a determined wriggle towards the circle that no longer seemed so tight-knit; towards possibilities that now appeared Her ears filled with a sound so new and freeing that she knew she could not live without it in her life. Google wasn’t needed- She immediately clamped her mouth shut, accidentally biting her to*gue in the process. She knew she shouldn’t have overstepped; she felt Her cheeks flushed crimson. Deformed words stumbled across the plane of her to*gue, tripping over the tip in their haste to make up for