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Is this really how people think? Like they have no capacity for their own decisions.

They believe everything fed to them? I guess people prefer to have something to talk about rather than figuring out if it’s true or not. It’s easier to believe than to investigate.

How could people be this cruel? Ruining others’ mental well-being?

Since I saw those pictures yesterday, I realized why people have been looking at me the way they do.

Judgmental.

Insulting.

I just wanted to disappear at that exact moment. Two days. Two days since I learned about the spreading rumors in school.

I thought that if I got into an exclusive school, there would be no gossipers, no busybodies, and no bad behavior.

Maybe due to my lack of knowledge about such things, I hoped this would be a fresh start for me.

No tears fell from my eyes as I stared into the void at Pacio Lake. It’s a famous lake here, an hour away from the school.

I still have one class left today, but I don’t want to hang around there; I don’t wan