A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, C6 – write a drabble novel with chapters under 500 words, and for the Minesweeper Challenge (bomb square): multichap with individual chapters under 1000 words, and from a fandom with under 1000 fics to its name. The main character has to either be a character you haven't given much attention to before, or a character you don't particularly like. Your prompts are "breath", "aid", and "arch", and someone must have dinner somewhere in the fic.
In a Small Space
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It was a small space. She couldn't breathe in it. Couldn't be rid of those dark spots behind her eyes.
She wanted freedom. She wanted out.
It wasn't easy to find a way out of a prison cell.
She could pretend all she wanted. Wear make-up and fancy clothes and a mask. They changed nothing. She was that same, trapped animal deep inside.
Like a cat scratching on the walls. Like a puppy biting at the leash.
Outside, she was all smiles and aglow.
Somehow, it had to change. She had to escape. Find the door. Get out – become something else. Cast her name aside, cast the prison that came with it: the expectations, the weight, the too bright lights that she fought to not gaze away from.
Because that was who she was. Urazoe Iona. Rich girl. Model. Girl extraordinaire.
She had to get away from that spotlight.
Or she'd become a monster outside as well.