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And a special thanks to my wonderful boyfriend for being a muse and bouncing board. :)
"Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive" – Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
It all started when she was just another "orphaned" child in the foster care system. She'd been in the system until she turned eighteen, but even Booth didn't know that, she told all her close friends that she'd been rescued by her grandfather, but she'd never had grandparents. She'd been truly alone in the world, getting herself through college on scholarships and whatever odd jobs she could find, mostly modeling for art classes and babysitting banks of computer servers in the dead of night as they backed up the day's work.
But as she was saying, it started when she was a foster child, after a few months in the system she'd already been through three different homes all of which had treated her badly. She'd become numb, she felt nothing at that point, and she still couldn't pinpoint where she'd gotten the idea, but one night she had the handle of a broken plastic fork and she used it to shallowly cut across her wrist. She'd had the highly visible cuts for weeks before they finally healed, yet no one noticed, or no one cared, she still wasn't sure which, but that only fed her numbness, so a month of two later she found herself again using that broken fork on herself, and that cycle of cuts and invisibility continued until she was out of the system and away at college. That's when she had a good friend named June who'd yelled at her the moment she'd seen the fading scars from the latest round of cutting.
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