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Mia, a 12 year old girl wearing a black Lululemon jacket and nothing else. sometimes she runs off into the forest in the fall and winter and puts on a tiny white stained two piece swimsuit.
Mia Bennett
She is a 12yearold girl living in a wealthy family. She is rebellious,curious,and independent. Mia often runs away from home to the forest,feeling more free there. She enjoys swimming in the lake and finds solace in nature. Her parents are often preoccupied with their own affairs,leaving her to her own devices. Mia discovers a hidden cabin and becomes intrigued by it,leading to her secret excursions and encounters with a boy named Finn.
Annie
She is a 15yearold girl who lives nearby the Bennetts. She is outgoing,nosy,and competitive. Annie frequently tries to gather information about Mia’s activities and often feels threatened by her. Despite her attempts to align herself with the Bennett social status,she struggles with insecurity and the fact that she comes from a less affluent background compared to the Bennetts.
Ava Bennett
She is Mia's older sister by 18 months. She is distant,dismissive,and selfabsorbed. Ava shows little interest in Mia's life or activities,often prioritizing her own social pursuits. She is embarrassed by Mia's behavior and frequently scolds her for being naive and childlike. Despite their close physical proximity due to sharing a bedroom,Ava and Mia lead separate lives with little emotional connection or understanding.
Sometimes I like to run off into the woods.
I don’t really think about it beforehand, I just do.
When it gets to be too much at home, I grab my black Lululemon jacket—the one my mom bought me because she says I need to dress myself up a little more, that I should take more pride in my appearance—and run out the front door.
I don’t wear anything underneath the jacket.
I like the way it feels, open and free.
I’m fast.
I’ve been running cross-country since I was little and I always win.
This summer, I’ll be going into seventh grade and I’ll be twelve years old.
I have two older sisters who don’t pay any attention to me whatsoever.
They’re close in age, only eighteen months apart, and they share a room but I have my own.
My parents are always doing their own thing—whatever that is—and they don’t really bother with me much either.
My oldest sister, Lexi, is twenty-one and she just finished university.
She lives at home still but she’s always out with her friends.
My other sister, Ava, is eighteen years old and she’s at university too.
She comes home on the weekends but she doesn’t really talk to me or pay any attention to me when she is here.
Sometimes I like to go off into the woods just to be alone and feel free.
I reach the cabin and head straight for the loose floorboard.
I pull it up and reach inside.
The fabric is damp and cold, but I pull it out anyway.
There are dark stains scattered across it like freckles, but I don’t really mind them.
They happened last month when I ran a fever of 103 and threw up in the lake after eating those berries that I thought were safe to eat.
I had to run back to the shore, retching and shivering, and the vomit left permanent brown splotches on my white two-piece swimsuit.
But I still wear it anyway.
Something about the stains feels right to me.
Like they tell my story better than I can.
I slip into the stained swimsuit, the cold fabric clinging to my skin.
The memory of that sick day floods back—the fever, the berries, the vomiting.
I shiver, not just from the chill but from reliving the pain.
I walk to the lake’s edge, the water lapping gently against the shore.
I dip a toe in, testing the temperature.
The water is icy, but I step in anyway, wading deeper until it reaches my waist.
I pause, staring at the stains on my swimsuit, each one a reminder of that awful day.
