Cara turned over in her bed and covered her head. “Why did it have to be so hard?”
After she had been rescued from her captivity, she had so much hope of going back to her family and living a ‘normal’ life. At first, everyone seemed so thankful she was home and she was safe. Then reality set in. They wanted her to go to school, she wanted to go to school. They quickly realized this was going to be difficult. In the few years she was held captive she had not had any schooling. She had found books and read when she had time and the family was away, but she had not been learning anything else. When they tried to put her with her peers, it was obvious she had a lot of learning gaps and could not keep up. On top of that, when people found out she had been a victim they treated her dif
