PERSEFONE POV
Penny and I had spent almost two hours getting ready in her room after our little heart-to-heart.
Which honestly should’ve been embarrassing considering neither of us had anywhere important to be.
Still, she curled my hair while blasting dramatic breakup songs through her speakers and somehow convinced me to wear a dark green dress that, according to her, made my eyes “look illegally pretty.”
I told her she sounded insane.
She told me to shut up and put mascara on.
And stupidly—
stupidly—
part of me hoped they would see it.
Pathetic.
Absolutely f*****g pathetic.
But they weren’t even there.
Mom told us they had to leave the pack suddenly because “something came up.”
Which sounded like adult bullshit for:
they needed distance from your sorry ass.
I smiled anyway
