Would you read this?
I was thinking of writing a story where the main character jumps to her death in the first part, and her last words are “I’m sorry.” The best friend is there and with tears in her eyes, she begged her to stay, yet the MC is like hey gurl I love you but no fucking way. That would be the first chapter. Then like the immediate aftermath. It’d be 3rd POV or MC pov.
Then the rest of the book would be from different people’s perspective, some who know her, some who have just seen her, and exploring the impact she had.
It’s a story more about mental health so no romance. There will be many different perspectives, but it will revisit the best friend, and a ‘rival’ who saw the MC as a competitor as she always got top in the exams or something.
I think someone would be more vulnerable with their best friend so I’d like the best friend to know there was something wrong. They didn’t act on it though as they thought the MC could handle it if they really needed help. MC would also seem perfect to people who didn’t really know her well. I think the best friend would feel extremely guilty and her mental state will decline as a result of the MC’s suicide. Perhaps they’ll commit self harm and at the end of the book, they’ll also jump. If she jumps, I think I want it to kinda be like the first chapter, except the best friend apologises to no one, unlike how the MC apologised to her.
I kinda wanna portray it as a critique to society. About how people are struggling but no one tries to help. About how poor mental health awareness is. About how people think depression is just someone being sad for a long time and that it’s obvious while there are actually a lot of people suffering silently in the shadows.
What do you think? Would you read something like this?