ELLA
Returning to school felt strange.
Everything looked the same as it always had. The same hallways and the same classrooms and the same faces I had seen every day for years, but something was different.
Something had shifted while I was away at Dark Stone and I could not figure out what it was.
I walked through the front doors and immediately felt eyes on me.
A group of girls standing near the lockers stopped talking when I passed. They stared at me with expressions I could not read and then they leaned close to each other and whispered something behind their hands.
I heard one of them laugh but it was not a friendly sound. I kept walking.
Maybe I was imagining things. Maybe I was just paranoid after everything that had happened. Maybe the stress of the last few weeks was final
