AURELIA
"Do you ever wake up feeling like a thousand trucks just ran you over?"
"You would not be alive to feel that, Claire. And if you are trying to describe how you feel every morning, then I can sympathise."
Ava and Claire have been talking to each other basically this morning. We have had awkward morning walks to school, but this one is unique. Ellie is rarely quiet during our walks and now all I notice is the look in her eyes. I am not sure if I would be exaggerating if I called it sadness. That lonely darkness in her eyes.
She is not even looking at us most of the time and because I am spending so much time trying to read her and figure out what she is feeling or possibly thinking about, I have been just as quiet.
"Okay, are we really this boring now? Aurie, tell us about y
