Alec's 19th birthday came around, he was super thrilled as his friends planned something big and were taunting him about it all month. It was the first time in years that Alec finally felt a smile paint across his face that was not forced, Alec wanted this feeling to last a lifetime, that thought and feeling of actually being happy was something alien to him. 

When he felt the smile begin to form he hesitated for a second to let it fully form across his face, he took a look around him to make sure none of his family was there to see him in this strange state. And then when he knew it was safe he finally let it go. 

He felt like fireworks were going off around him, he felt his heart start to beat faster within his chest, he never felt this type of feeling before. Alec's life was just full of sadness since he could remember. Through this, he locked himself in his room for years and didn't talk to anyone other than his family that looked down on him. 

When he finally made friends he didn't know how to socialize with them it was so foreign to him that he ran away from so many people that could have helped him through the difficult times that he was facing. 

The day finally came! On his birthday, Alec woke up in the morning to no one looking at him, not saying one word it was like he became a shadow overnight or like a piece of paper abandoned and pushed to the back of the draw never to be seen again. 

As he opened his mouth to say that he would be out for the entire day with friends everyone looked up from the breakfasts that their mother made for them. His father looked at him with a frown and cleared his throat and said that he would be staying in and spending it in his room like every other year that his birthday rolled around. 

In a mocking manner, he said " you can't break the family tradition of you locking yourself away and crying on your birthday for no reason right? " 
This broke Alec's heart but he just looked at them all and smiled and went back upstairs with a breakfast bar in one hand and a glass of orange juice in the other. 

He threw both against the wall, locked himself in his bathroom, sat on the floor, and picked up his book where he would write his feelings out as his friends told Alec that it would help him calm down in bad situations. 

He created these fake people that were representations of his life and of people around him. 

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