AURORA’S POV
I could not find Maya. It felt like I was searching forever but glancing down at my phone, it’d only been thirty minutes. Had I really been searching for her for that long? Why wasn’t she searching for me? Or even Lucas searching for me? Was he still back there with that tool, laughing at how stupid and ugly I am? The anger in my gut twisted itself further—that asshole. I couldn’t even go to parties without him showing his big ugly face here. Class wasn’t safe, but now, even my social life would suffer.
I almost laughed at myself—social life. I did not have one of those. But here I was at a party, so I wasn’t a hermit. And now he was making me want to build a hut in the middle of the forest, live off the land, and be a real hermit—anything to get away from him.
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