The others left me in the dining room, storming out after their anger was let out on me. I deserved it, I never should have let my jealously and possessiveness get the better of me. I had hurt Rose, the one thing I had never wanted to do. That girl was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was swimming in darkness before she came to the Academy. The moment I saw her, the darkness receded, making it easier for me to fight it off. But whenever she wasn’t around, the darkness would come back, engulfing me, drowning me. Then she just got rid of it. I felt her at the core of my being. I felt her compassion, her determination to rid me of the darkness that was consuming me. I felt how much she cared, how much she wanted me. And I had never believed I would ever have the chance to feel somet
