ALLISON’S POV
I wouldn’t have barged into 24:11 yesterday if I knew Justin was going to hit me with all that.
Honestly, I probably would’ve stayed back, curled up with junk instead of realizing I had zero defense and just… ran away like a total coward.
Because that’s the real problem. It’s not just knowing something’s messed up. It’s not just admitting it. It’s figuring out how to move forward, how to heal, how to be me and not let anyone else’s definition stick. It’s staring in the mirror and actually seeing someone I recognize, someone I can trust and not some version of me that’s been shaped by what I thought I had to be for two years.
Yeah, it probably looks easy from the outside. The same way people tell depressed people to just be happy, like it’s a switch you can flip if you tr
