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Now Mira stood outside Zoey’s door, heart tapping a frantic rhythm under her ribs. The hallway felt too quiet. Every creak of the floor echoed like it might be footsteps—but it never was.
She knocked, light but clear. “Zo?”
No answer.
She hesitated, then knocked again. “Zoey?” Her voice cracked a little on the full name.
Still nothing.
Her hand stayed on the door longer this time, like maybe Zoey could feel it. Like maybe that would be enough.
“I didn’t mean what I said like that,” she said softly. “I mean—I meant the words, yeah. But not like that. Not to make you feel like you were too much.”
Her voice faltered.
“I was frustrated. Not with you. Just… with how you kept saying you were fine. And I know that’s what you do, but—” she exhaled, her forehead pressing lightly against the door. “You don’t have to pretend with us. With me.”
She knocked once more, more tentative this time. “Zoey…?”
Silence.
Her hand dropped to her side, guilt crashing back down like a wave.
“…Yeah,” she muttered. “I deserve that.”
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Zoey gets sick, tries to hide it, and convinces herself that Mira and Rumi have enough to deal with—without being a burden, too.
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05 Jul 2025
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Now that she thought about it, Mira wasn’t the only bad influence in Huntr/x. If she were then the three of them wouldn’t have snowballed their way into where they are now. That place being sat on plastic chairs in front of a couple thousand fans of multiple groups, while also being stoned off their asses. No Mira fully blamed Zoey for this.
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Rumi, Mira, and Zoey smoke instead of going to therapy
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05 Jul 2025
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Zoey closed her eyes. “You guys weren’t supposed to see.” Her voice was quiet and shaky and full of emotion. “I was gonna clean up before you got home. I always clean up.”
Rumi and Mira glanced at each other, the word always sparking new concern. Mira pursed her lips, hesitating slightly before asking the question that was now on everyone’s mind. “How often do you…cut yourself, Z?”
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Zoey has some unhealthy coping mechanisms. Rumi and Mira find out and are determined to help her.Bookmarked by RicketyKid
05 Jul 2025
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When 'fans' start demanding changes from Zoey and she listens to them, it's required a intervention from her girlfriends.
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04 Jul 2025
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Mira learned how to be invisible before she learned how to write her own name.
She learned it in the way her mother’s eyes glazed over whenever she entered the room, only to sharpen with venom if she lingered too long. She learned it in the way her father’s suitcase was never fully unpacked, always halfway to gone. She learned it in the way her brother, the golden boy, never said her name unless it was to tattle, to scold, or to spit it like a curse.
She learned it in the silence between dinner clinks and the muffled arguments behind closed doors, in the cold rice that waited for her after everyone else had eaten. In the echoing thud of her mother’s voice slurred over soju:
“You were born to ruin this family.”Bookmarked by RicketyKid
04 Jul 2025