“Get out!” I shouted at Lauren, who rushed over when I walked back into my room. “Luna, I need to…” “I said get out!” I shouted at the top of my lungs, not allowing her to finish. This time she did not protest, she just left as fast as her legs could carry her. I was pacing back and forth in my room trying to figure out what I was going to do in regards to the cleansing. I will not allow them to poison me. “One breath, two breaths, three breaths”. I tried to calm myself. What am I going to do? I asked myself. I could hear the women in the bathroom, they were whispering to one another speculating over my outburst earlier. Their whispers are annoying me, they have not left that bathroom since this morning, they were too scared to step a foot into my room, yet they are brave enough to goss

