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Beneath The Smile


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Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Emily. She was so beautiful, well-mannered, and innocent.

Emily lived in the village with her grandparents, in a big little sweet home.

Her parents lived abroad as she pursued her education in the village.

Kids at school would bully and torment Emily, yet she kept having faith.

While being a happy, joyful seven-year-old girl, Emily had more to her beautiful broken heart.

Her grandmother, aunt, and her aunt's children never liked her much.

Emily was always happy on the outside, while her heart burnt into ashes.

Emily would follow her cousins and other children to play, and things would go normally every day.

Nonetheless, at seven, Emily started getting sick nonstop.

Teachers even noticed Emily starting to fall asleep in class. They would ask her how she was, and her answer was always, "I'm fine."

Teachers started to think that she was missing her parents.

Emily always...