ISABELLA After pacing back and forth for several minutes, trying to calm myself after signing my life away to Antonio, I finally grabbed my phone and called Sarah. I needed to vent, and she was the only person I trusted enough to listen. Antonio had already left for the club or wherever he disappeared to at night, which meant he wasn't around to stop me from acting on the plan forming in my head. Sarah answered after the fourth ring, her voice almost drowned out by loud music. "Isabella? Can you hear me?" she yelled over the noise. She was already at the club, and it was 8 PM. "Can you go outside? Please, Sarah," I begged. There was a brief pause before she came back on the line, sounding much farther from the chaos. "Hey, where are you?" I quietly opened my bedroom

