Invisible To Her Bully

Author Name: Ava Bloomfield

Ava Bloomfield is a romance and emotional drama writer who explores the human heart with honesty, vulnerability, and depth. Their stories focus on complicated relationships, broken bonds, and the painful beauty of growing into yourself. They believe every character deserves a voice, every wound deserves a story, and every heart deserves a chance to heal. When not writing, they can be found daydreaming about new storylines, scrolling Pinterest for aesthetic inspiration, or drinking too much late-night coffee.

Summary :

Jessa once believed that being a twin was the greatest gift she could ever have. To her, Jackson wasn’t just her brother—he was her other half, her closest friend, the one constant in a life where their mother was always working to keep them fed. They grew up leaning on each other, inseparable and content. Jessa never needed anyone else, because she had Jackson. And Jackson had her.

Everything changed the day Noah Carter entered their lives.

Noah was the new boy, quiet, serious, and sharp-eyed, the kind of boy who drew attention without trying. Jessa noticed him instantly—the long lashes, the shy way he talked, the gentleness. She thought he could be a friend. But instead, he became the wedge that split her world apart.

Jackson and Noah bonded quickly over sports and shared interests, leaving Jessa on the sidelines. At first, she didn’t mind. She wanted Jackson to have friends. But slowly, painfully, she realized she was being left behind. The brother who once walked beside her was now stepping ahead, forgetting to look back.

The shift began with small things—Jackson choosing to play football with Noah instead of going home with her, choosing movies Noah liked instead of listening to what she wanted. But the moment everything cracked was the day Jessa overheard Noah calling her a brat and Jackson agreeing. The betrayal was quiet, simple, and devastating. It was the first time Jessa felt truly alone.

And once the distance started, it grew.

As the years passed, Jessa changed physically—curves came early, weight settled in places she didn’t choose, and insecurity took root. Her mom, struggling with her own history of body shame, only reinforced the idea that girls built like them needed to cover up. So Jessa hid—under oversized clothes, lowered eyes, and small, careful movements.

Meanwhile, Noah and Jackson rose in popularity. They became known as the unstoppable duo: the quarterback and his best friend. And Jessa became their favorite punchline.

The teasing wasn’t harmless. It was cruel. Noah called her names, mocked her weight, made sure she felt small every day. And Jackson—the boy who once would have fought anyone who made her cry—just laughed along.

The worst memory came in eighth grade, when someone filled her locker with trash bags labeled as her “new wardrobe.” Noah’s laughter echoed the loudest. Jackson didn’t stop him. That day, Jessa didn’t just lose her brother—she lost the version of herself who believed she deserved to exist in the same space as them.

Now, senior year is here. One final year of high school before she can escape everything that poisoned her life.

Jessa wakes each day with a quiet determination to simply survive. She wears loose clothes to hide her body, avoids attention, and keeps her head down. She says little, feels less, lives silently. Her only real anchor is Mariah—the girl who saw her break at twelve and chose to stand with her when no one else would.

But Noah hasn’t changed. Every morning he shows up at her house, still attached to Jackson, still the golden boy everyone adores. He greets her with smirks and nicknames soaked in mockery. He comments on her food at breakfast. He turns her existence into a joke in the school cafeteria. And Jackson, still her brother, still her twin, lets it happen.

Yet something is different this year. It happens quietly—like a flicker of electricity in a dim room. Jessa catches Noah looking at her. Not laughing. Not sneering. Just looking. And for a moment—just one—his eyes aren’t cruel. They’re something else. Something unreadable.

She hates that she notices.

She hates even more that her heart reacts.

Because buried beneath the hurt and humiliation is a truth she has never forgiven herself for:

Before Noah became the boy who destroyed her self-esteem, he was the boy she once liked.

And now, her worst fear whispers:

What if part of her still does?

Jessa wants freedom—college, distance, a fresh start where she isn’t “the fat twin” or “Noah’s joke.” But her heart, stupid and stubborn, keeps remembering the boy with the long lashes who once had no best friend.

And she wonders, just for a second, what would have happened if life had been kinder.

But life wasn’t.

Life made him the boy who stole her brother.

Life made him the boy who broke her.

And now, life is forcing her to finish one last year living in the same house with her past, her pain, and the one person she should hate more than anyone—yet can’t quite ignore.