As midnight came and passed her silently, she smiled to herself.

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Vikki Kirkpatrick 11BH

English - Fiction

As midnight came and passed her silently, she smiled to herself.

The night was clear and crisp and the moon stood proud among its army of stars. Outside on her porch step she stared at the night sky, no emotion revealed.

Her brown almond shaped eyes widened as she watched the heavens twinkle above her. Her mind slowly wandered and began to replay the long, strenuous months, like a movie in her mind, which had led her to the emotional and physical state she was now in.

The movie began like most. She could sense the emotions that she’d had at the time, as though they still lingered and haunted her in a way that she felt would never leave her completely. Images of herself flashed through her mind. It was as though she was watching herself on stage, pivoting like the perfect ballerina she longed to be. She began to remember the discontent that she had felt whilst performing, she could feel her old passion to be faultless. This is how it had begun. Katherine had wanted to be ideal; she had an uncontrollable desire to be perfection.

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At 15, she was an intelligent young woman; she was pretty yet modest and had a passion for the arts. She belonged to a large diverse group of friends and although she had known the majority of them all her life, only one knew the real her.

Her obsession for perfection began with the need to impress her fathers’ new family. Ever since he had left her mum and re-married she’d felt like someone had placed a barrier between the two of them. She no longer felt like a part of his family, but was now simply an outsider trying ...

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