CW: Self-harm/Endangered child/Underage drug use
In Case of Emergency Break Glass
Like for instance if you panic in first period, and hide in the girls’ bathroom for two hours before sneaking out to catch the city bus home. And once you get there you slip in the side window that doesn’t close right, but you can’t find any fucking thing to cut yourself with because Mom locked up all the razors and scissors and needles and knives. So you walk the half-mile to the culvert where you used to get high, and probably will again, with that boy who dumped you and kissed you and dumped you and kissed you. And then all you gotta do is find an empty Henny bottle (there’s always at least one), smash it on a rock, and pull up your sleeves and cut and cut and cry and bleed. And for a while, anyway, that specific sharp-sweet pain will make the sirens in your head stop screaming.