Her hand shook violently, and the cake and clothes slipped from her grasp with a loud thud to the floor.
"Why didn't I stay in Seaport for college? Because I needed to get as far away from you as possible. Why did I need to get so far away? Don't you know why?"
Wren's eyes burned scarlet, and tears came pouring out, uncontrollable, unending.
"Ever since I was little, I've had to live by the rules you made for me. What time to eat, what time to sleep, how much water to drink every day, what exact score I had to get on each exam, what rank I had to place, what weight I had to stay at, how many books I had to finish reading every month... I was just a robot you controlled.
"My room was plastered with all the schedules you made. I had to stick to them exactly, or you'd be upset, and you'd
