I remember writing this for weeks and weeks, each time a new emotion popped up, I wrote about it. 

X has major self-esteem issues, which is something at the time I didn’t care about. Self-esteem, those two words meant nothing to me. It’s also hard to open up about how crappy you feel about yourself when all people tell you is that you are good and smart and all of these things that you don’t see. You can’t accept their compliments, because in your head that makes you a narcissist. You can’t deny them, because that’s rude. Even now, I’m screaming at myself “don’t write that! You sound so egotistical”. X is able to believe what Levi tells him, and they have a touching moment together. That’s probably something I really wanted. 

Levi, or AquaAval, or just plain Aqua, struggles with burnout. I also struggled with that, where my own creativity was literally strangling itself. I wanted to do everything at once right at that moment, but I physically couldn’t. The scene at the end with Cherri and Aqua on the roof is a break from all of that. A lot of my characters find comfort in the cold air, and they run away to specifically be in the cold air. 

Cherri struggles with being misunderstood. Everyone around her neglects her feelings. She also never confronts anyone about her problems, which I have trouble doing. Her story ends with her resolving to do something, but she never really says what she is going to do. When I have issues in my life, I want to resolve them but I never know what to do to resolve them.

Fitnessa forgets to take others' feelings into account, and she gets yelled at. Pretty simple. She was also numbing herself and burying her problems. 

Lisa and Caleb’s stories are like a two part finale to this set. Like Caleb is a runaway, which is an oddly common feature of my stories, you'll see more of that as I keep posting them.