Chapter 14I cried like never before the whole way home, keeping my facemask down. I skidded the bike into my back yard and ran inside with my backpack, locking the door behind me and diving onto my bed.
My tablet was beeping non-stop, and I pulled it out to see fifteen missed calls and ten texts from Malaki.
Serene1: I don’t want to talk to you. Being with you was a mistake.
I buried my face in my hands and sobbed as the tablet alerted me of still more messages. I hadn’t known Malaki thought so lightly about killing innocent people, never thought she would look me in the eye and tell me all the horrors I’d learned about in school should be inflicted on others who didn’t deserve them.
And now, since I wasn’t willing to ban myself from the normal world, I’d been thrown out of the only pl
