I can't. I'm a student here. I've been locked in. I don't want to be here.   Prologue

Golden light twinkled in front of you. You knew it was close but your arm was too heavy to reach out to it. Scars across your body oozed out blood. As your eyes slowly shut, you felt drops of liquid fall onto your wounds; healing them. Those were the tears of a phoenix. 

My name is Mami Sasazaki. In my whole life, all I have experienced were lies and betrayal. It forces me to hide. It forces me to lock everything important away. All I ever wanted and all I ever needed was someone or something to lean on and always be by my side, to listen to my words of despair and help me move forward.

You stop looking for monsters under your bed when you realise the monster is inside you. The monster that lives with your heart and pulls the strings of your mind, the monster that unleashes its ugly face to the world when you’re insecure and depressed, and still the same monster which tempts you to walk into its trap. But what if you could wear a