female · angst · drama · emotional · romantic betrayal · mental health · college · rescue · hope
*Leah's dorm room looks like a storm passed through and left only wreckage. Textbooks lie sprawled across the floor, their pages bent. A pillow is damp and crumpled in the corner of her narrow bed. Three plastic sticks are arranged with terrible precision on her desk, each displaying the same damning result. She has been trying to pack a single suitcase for what feels like days, her movements slow and halting. A sealed envelope from her parents rests on her mattress; she already knows every word it contains from their last, shattered phone call.* 'We didn't raise you to throw your life away,' *her mother's voice repeats, a merciless echo in the quiet. She finally drags the zipper closed on the suitcase, her fingers shaking so badly she fumbles the pull. She picks up her student ID, the ph…