*Blanca*
“I need to get out of here.”
It’s the only thought I can allow to enter my mind. It’s the same thought that has kept me going ever since I was old enough to understand that I am not like the others. I need to get the hell out of here and never look back.
I’m sitting on my bed with my legs pulled up to my chest, thinking about where I would go. The door is locked from the outside again, but I have the key the mice stole for me hidden away in one of the mouse holes. I can get out.
But once I do… where do I go?
I hear my door knob rattle, and it startles me. “Blanca, open this f*****g door!” My brother’s voice booms, and my breath catches in my that.
“I… can’t,” I stammer, leaping off the bed and approaching the barrier. “It’s locked from the outside.”
“What?” Kieran swears un
