7 By the time Stacia had returned to her now empty apartment, she had calmed down. Bryna and Trihn had both plied her with kind words and promised to be there for her even though they would be on the other side of the world by tomorrow. But she had just told them that she was fine and wanted to be alone. Maybe losing cheerleading wasn’t the worst thing in the world. It still ate her up on the inside though. It still made her want to scream and cry. But she couldn’t do anything about it. All her meeting had done was get Bryna to quit, too, which sucked. Stacia hadn’t anticipated that. She’d told Bryna to go back in there and get her position back, but she’d refused. No matter how much of a b***h Bryna could be, she was dead loyal. Instead of returning to her room and bawling her eyes ou