will a blossom of light come to me ?

!Iris trudges home with a blank expression and dark bags beneath her eyes. She knows she’s in for a long night as soon as she reaches her doorstep. Her father greets her, demanding, “Show me your report card.” She hands it over, her voice barely audible as she apologizes for the B in science. But her father doesn’t accept her apology. Instead, he drags her across the living room, beating her mercilessly with a baseball bat until she’s on the brink of unconsciousness. Fortunately, her brother Cameron arrives just in time to intervene and ask why their father is attacking her. Iris breathes a sigh of relief.

Her father stops and her mother storms out of the kitchen, yelling that dinner is ready. Everyone sits down except for her father, who refuses to join them. Her mother becomes furious, but Iris knows better than to try to intervene. Instead, she takes her food and heads to her basement bedroom to cry.

Later, Cameron visits her in the basement, giving her a small book and two thousand dollars. He promises that as soon as he gets a job that can support both of them, he’ll take her away from their abusive home.

Iris is 19 years old, yet she never gets to act her age and enjoy her life. She focuses solely on studying, and as a result, she often wakes up with a dead expression and dark circles beneath her eyes. But today is different. She feels a spark of self-confidence that she can’t quite identify and wonders what it could be. When she goes outside, she finds a piece of bread in the garbage and decides to eat it since she’s not allowed to touch the food in the fridge.

At school, she sits down next to a boy who carelessly snips off some of her gray and purple hair while she’s distracted. When she realizes what’s happening, she runs away crying, eventually tripping over a rock and gaining bruises on her face and arms. She thinks of Ale her cousin a jerk who always seems to have a better life than she does.

Feeling hopeless, Iris decides to jump off the Murasaki bridge to find a better place. But as she lowers her head and walks, she notices a crumpled advertising paper at her feet. Something about it catches her attention, but she can’t figure out what it is. she wants to know ..she looks at the crumbled advertising paper and picks it up..she wonders what am I going to find in this ..and she goes to the bridge without a second thought she wants to jump but she just doesn't have any courage some thing inside her still wants to live.. maybe I was her brothers words that is giving her will power to resist the feelings of pain and to try to look into a good perspective on life..she steps back and she walks back home carrying the crumbled paper

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