Pup is displeased with current circumstances.

[scarlet_discord]

Yeah, it was a sucky way to react to someone who is obviously in trouble and depends on you, but what did you expect? I know who I'd be picking for company in her situation, and it's definitely not me. My life is almost universally shitty and I'm not good at pretending that it isn't. Who would want to be around me?

I know you're uncomfortable with my "acting up", but it's time. Past time. Did you really think I would eat the kind of crap that has been thrown at me in the last month and not lash out eventually?

...I don't think so.

So let's get to it.

Comments

[burnmythoughts]

I think you're selling yourself short.

[scarlet_discord]

Maybe, but...it's not like I can force anyone to care about what happens to me.

[burnmythoughts]

No one can force that kind of thing. But you can tell people what's wrong.

[scarlet_discord]

I do and maybe I feel better for a while, but then it just gets worse. I'm sure everyone is getting tired of me.

[burnmythoughts]

Friends are there to listen.

...Maybe you need something more, though. Do you have - is there anyone older, there? Like - a mentor?

[and she makes a face] I know it sounds silly, but it helped me a lot.

[scarlet_discord]

He just left. Along with my boyfriend and another of my friends. The person who is supposed to be my mentor seems to have gotten tired of me. In favor of what, I don't know.

[burnmythoughts]

I'm sorry.

You should ask him, then. If he's stepped up then he needs to be there for you.

[scarlet_discord]

I can try talking to her again, but I feel like she just blew me off when I made it clear I wasn't OK.

[burnmythoughts]

Seriously?

That's not okay, Wanda.

[scarlet_discord]

Yeah, well...there's a lot of things that aren't okay about my life. I just have to find a way to get used to it.

[burnmythoughts]

No! We can't just - accept that things are bad. We fight to change them.

Because we deserve better. You deserve better.

[scarlet_discord]

I want to. But one thing I cannot change is my past. Or the fact that certain people who hurt me are walking around free and unpunished.

[burnmythoughts]

...We can never change that. We just - we have to try to live with it. And keep moving forward.

What did they do?

[scarlet_discord]

They imprisoned me as a child. In an institution. I wasn't crazy, I was just a kid acting out with superpowers. I was there for years, though. Grew up there, really.

[burnmythoughts]

Oh, Wanda, that's horrible.

...I almost - I could have gone to one. But at least there was a reason.

[scarlet_discord]

If I had one wish it would be that I never met him.