Chapter 28: No One Is Helping
Trigger Warning: Child a***e. Mild though
RILEY
"Do you see what you did?" she hissed, turning around to face me, advancing further as her voice got louder. "Do you see how you embarrassed me?"
I pressed myself back against the door, trying to make myself as small as possible, while she let her anger loose.
This was what I was familiar with.
"I work so hard to make a good impression every single day, to make people like us, to give us a chance at a better life. So that when we get to be the real family of Xenois, nobody will think that we didn't earn it. And you sit there like a mute little freak, making everyone think something's wrong with you."
The words hit me like physical blows. Freak. That's what I was to her when no one else was around. Not
