005. Witness

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As a school counselor, Emma has witnessed a lot of things in the last few years.

Family tragedies, nasty break-ups, unrequited love. She helped girls with anorexia and bulimia, kids who were bullied, who couldn't fit in, who were too different, and also ones who wanted to be different. There were students whom she could help, and students she couldn't. After all, it was her job, her profession: to listen, to witness, and help when she could.

And she's always done everything in her power to help others. For that few hours when she was doing her job, she could forget – even if temporally – her own problems: the OCD, the loneliness.

Yet, there was one thing she couldn't help, couldn't do anything about it, just standing there, witnessing everything: watching her own downfall.