The Fame Paradox

e her face a sick glow. The room was very still, only the TV's hum broke the silence. She

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since everyt

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she barely saw it at all. The ever flashing h

ays, her name was dra

ons, now she was mere

lair: Fallen

relenting drumbeat. She shut her eyes as if wi

believed

turned their

his happen

ndeniable talent. Yet now, the world saw only a tarnished rep

yal stung

friend, had been the first

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ayed her-leaving her to fend for herself in a

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ations were

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screen, reading

formed in h

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s? That's beyond disgusting. I ca

not shocked. N

hat's when you know it's not just rumors. To

spotlight. The world would be a bet

used to love her. Guess

with her manipulation. How

I'm honestly disgusted th

r for so long... I feel

ing in her heart. She could almost hear t

ight-air all thick, an

nce more, now ea

ut new ones took

t hold on m

all the shame, the being alone, the deep pain of

believe

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ors, anyone wh

had already ma

for help, only to

ne c

tood by

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ting themselves as the victims, while Sc

st her aside, choosing t

cared about her, no

were using her downfall to further thei

her t

n her chest, as if the

her f

mething so terrible? M

he was

n the manipulativ

punishment, the pri

d was better o

o

oud and clear, filled with defiance, y

dn't

mattered

t-the mocking, loud la

V sound, louder than the

, in the silence of

reminder of the fall from grace t

ision blurred, her body shaking with

for, everything she'd

se the penthouse

as noth

nothin

phone on silence, she couldn't

stand to look

with the endless

shaking, as if she

gitated mind swirlin

penthouse were

as no e

eft to t

ven h

had found their way to her mind

be best if she si

ly that her bare feet connected to the cold pavement

silent, deser

gnize the person

let Elle Sinclair t

ul roaming the streets

ept w

fog, her he

rself, wasn't able to summ

same thing that was

it