Sophie It was the next morning, which also meant it was the assigned day when me and Ronald got to attend the party together. He didn’t let me go even for a bit, he had his hands on my waist when we were told to take pictures, he constantly pushed my drooping hair to the side of my face occasionally, and we had met at least half of the people in the party. There was no way I could escape him, and sickened me to my stomach even more. To know that it was all for the crowd. Now that wasn’t the main cause of distress, it was the fact that my meeting with Mitchell was way more important than pretending to be in the midst of everyone around me. It was suffocating enough that I had to pretend to laugh or engage, I was already zoning out, and knowing I could freely talk to Mitchell to know hi

