Life had changed so drastically for me that I inexorably felt like a big fish in a small pond, my friends no longer around to make me feel influential, making me realizing that I was not as important as my cocooned circle had led me to believe.
Within a week, I’d been judged by all my peers as Daddy’s spoilt girl and ostracized by all of them. It was saliently obvious that I wasn’t part of their squad, the hushed tones whenever I walked by them, the indiscrete murmurs behind my back, and of course the conspicuous lack of invitations to hang out.
Working in my father’s office and handling courses in the morning was not a piece of cake – both were hard work with high expectations. The only anchor I could cling to in that quicksand environment was Alex, but with him not speaking to me, I w
