The first couple of weeks after Zander left were exhausting. They reminded her of being back at her sister's wedding and pretending all was right with the world because being sad would ruin Raven's day. The stakes were much more different this time around. April already had a close call with her father confronting her right after Zander left. She did not feel good about it, but she had successfully managed to lie to her father. In order to maintain the lie's believability, she could not afford to give into the little voice in her head that told her to spend all her days cocooned in a blanket shutting the rest of the world out. It was a familiar voice even if she had not heard it in a long time. She refused to give into it because there was absolutely no benefit for either of them if the fa
