A Billion Starry Nights

Prologue: Chara returns home from a concert at her friends house, she sneaks in to the window and comes out to the kitchen for something to drink. Her father begins to abuse her and it is described poetically, things that happen are replaced with analogies. He's going too far, her mother and brother arrive at the house, they witness the scene, the brother pulls the father off, but it takes the mother also to restrain him, Chara is bleeding from the head, the glass has been crushed into her face and her arms, she crawls and struggles back to her room, the screams as she hears her brother fighting off her father, she takes what she can and climbs out the window, and runs the reader is left with her closing monologue, "Keep going. There's only death back there. Keep going. Keep breathing. I don't want to die here. I want to die some place beautiful." In the beginning: Chara is in the hospital, she wonders about the scars on her arms, we learn that she's gro...

"Was I never supposed to notice that you knew?" I was caught, he caught himself by acknowledging it, unafraid of my reactions, this was different, this was a Shou I hadn't seen in years. "You were never supposed to say anything, I got conscious because of that song." he snickered, and sighed, "yeah, you were supposed to, I was supposed to pretend like this whole thing," he gestured at the gazebo and the string lights above us, "wasn't real, that this was some delusion brought on by the stress of being in love with you, that this nightmare would stay in my dreamland." he began to shake his head, and the gleam in his eyes, it hurt me because my best friend was puring it all out, and I could not move from where I was. "Shou,...what do you want from me? You know where I stand, you know how I feel, what do you want?" He came over to me and put his hands on mine, grasping at the bouquet of gold and pink flowers Seiko brought me mom...