Maurice:
I had to learn early that nothing about life was fair. If anything, life was ruthless.
When I was born and my mother died on the surgery table, life was not fair. When my father beat me day in day out because of her death, life wasn't fair.
But then, out of the blue, the pack warrior decided to adopt me as his daughter. Somehow, life began to look up.
And it should have ended that way if only I did not meet her and fall helplessly in love with her.
Even now as I stared at her laughing at the video currently playing on the projector, I could not blame her. this was the fault of life. Of how unfair it was to the less privileged like me.
I willed myself to take a step but I felt her hands grapple mine tightly, dragging me out of the laughing students before I could even say a
