~~Scarlette~~
It was another day... and Liam still wasn’t back.
Maybe I should have taken Kai’s suggestion about staying at his place, because hell, this house felt more suffocating than ever.
The walls felt like they were closing in.
I had packed and repacked the damn room a million times. Anything just to stay busy. Just to keep myself from going back into the living room where those fake, cunning lighters—Mel, Emelia, and Mother—kept throwing their silent mockery and sugar-coated poison my way.
Every time they laughed, I could swear it was about me.
Every time I passed by, the silence would suddenly grow tense.
I was going mad.
I couldn’t even go outside without Mother raising her voice, asking where I was off to, or Emelia suggesting I should “get a real job and stop wasting ev
