MILLICENT
I had no idea when I passed out. One second I was crying into Xander’s chest like a heartbroken i***t, fists pounding on him like it’d fix all the wrongs in my life, and the next I was blinking at the roof of an unfamiliar rent.
I felt warm and somehow, I was wrapped in a sleeping bag I didn’t remember crawling into, the world outside was still covered in early fog, birds chirping somewhere in the trees.
The sky had that pale blue color it turned right before sunrise. For a second, I thought maybe I was alone in the woods and had dreamt it all, every last mess of it, the bus ride, the shelter fight.
Sandra’s evil water tricks, the phone thing, Xander showing up like some unhinged knight in ripped jeans, but then I sat up and my coat slipped off my shoulder.
I hadn’t even c
