Chapter 7
The next couple of weeks passed quickly. When Christian had said I was behind, he wasn’t kidding. I didn’t know a thing about Auras. Most of my class time was spent trying to look up terms I’d never heard before like resplendent and ebullient, or other times I was scrambling to look up certain events in our history just so I could follow a conversation.
There was so much to absorb that by the weekend, I was numb. But it was probably good that I was busy. Whenever I was around others, my temperament was short, and I often snapped at people. It took all the strength I had not to get into fights with the other girls, even though they hadn’t really done anything to me. This gave fuel to the fire that I really was a freak. Sometimes I found it easier to just stay in my room where I
