“I’m not broken. I just need a different map. School is a map for normal kids. Mine has monsters. But maybe I can learn to walk around them instead of fighting them.”

“Yeah.”

She made it two hours in the library. She even said hi to one girl from her old art class. The girl smiled back. Maya called me after. “She didn’t run away. Is that weird?”

She thought. “The final better is knowing that even on the days I can’t leave my room, I’m not a problem to be solved. I’m a person to be loved.”