SERAPHINA’S POV
I scrub every inch of my body the second I get back to my dorm. Every bit of me they had seen; washing the marks left on my skin from their leering eyes.
Artemis’s words replay in my mind over and over again as I scrub, leaving red sore marks that complement the already darkening bruises.
My first day and I’m already a walking rainbow.
“I hate it here.” I admit to myself for the first time, feeling more tears gathering in my eyes.
Miss Lucy had been so happy that I finally got into this school but being here now, I have to ask what’s so special about it anyway, just another place where I can’t fit in no matter how hard I try.
Yet I can’t let everyone back home down, not now. They have so much hope for me, and I’m already losing faith in myself.
The next day in school
