Despite being surrounded by family and my pack, I have felt empty the last few days.
I had gained Hera back, but I felt a sense of greater loss.
Every time I saw Ella she would look at me with sympathy, leading me to wonder what my aura looked like these days; probably a murky mess of misery.
Much like the old Serena, I spent a lot of time on my own, trying anything to distract myself as much as possible from the crushing sadness I was feeling. I was also constantly on edge; I was just waiting, at this point, to feel my heart tear into pieces as soon as James decided to speak the words of rejection, something that I genuinely felt at this point, was likely a foregone conclusion.
I had completed all my coursework already, the world of education apparently the one thing that was going we
