Everyone knew me as Alma, or just 'new girl'. I moved what felt like halfway across the world to stay with my widowed Aunt Lucy in Burlington, Vermont, USA from Alma, New Brunkwick, Canada. My home town had a population of 250 during tourist season, Burlington had over 40,000 people. Talk about culture shock, between the busy city and the crazy American food and habits, I felt lost. I liked being alone, with my own thoughts. I had been on my own for years already. Aunt Lucy was not allowing it anymore. All I had to do was get through high-school, unnoticed. Just keep my head down. My favorite place to hang out, the library. Until I met Zane, and everything in my life was turned upside down, I fell into a world that I never could have imagined was real. The real question now, was would I make it out the other side unscathed?

He looked at her, the hate for her clearly reflecting from his eyes in the moonlight. ‘Why wouldn’t he just let her go?’ she wondered. He seemed to be making it his life goal to ruin her. Just like that he turned and left without another word. It wasn’t until she heard the truck start and tires spinning out of the yard that she let out a breath that she didn’t realize that she had been holding until now. She dropped to the floor and the tears started. ‘What was she going to do? Why did her parents force her into this doomed situation?’ Upstairs, the baby started crying. She let out a sigh and pulled herself off the floor, she needed to be strong, she would figure out a way to get her and her newborn out of this situation safely. She headed upstairs to check on her baby.