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Carolyn's POV
Though my eyes ran out of tears, my mind couldn't run away from all those memories of bullying. They continued to replay in my mind on a loop as I sat in that similar position Naomi saw me around sunrise.
It was now afternoon. Monday of the last week before college's reopening. The noise outside the window was ear-splitting. Cars honked and whirred every other minute, indicating that the students were filling in now.
They were happy to start a new phase of life whereas I... I, whose eighteenth birthday was today, who had two reasons to be happy was sitting in the room. Naomi shook off the cobwebs of slumber and opened her big eyes while stretching her arms.
Suddenly she winced and caressed the swell of her breast. Her eyes squinted, and the way she was sitting there
