Song of the chapter: BIRDS OF A FEATHER
AURORA'S POV:
My lungs are burning and each breath claws up my throat like fire, but I don’t stop running. I don’t care where I’m going just away. Away from the field, away from the school, away from him.
Arc.
His name slams into my skull like a hammer and I stumble, nearly tripping over a raised sidewalk edge. A car honks as I cross the street without looking, tires screeching. Someone shouts, but their voice is a distant blur. I’m already gone.
I sprint down alleyways and winding streets until I reach the edge of the woods behind the dorms. My body moves on instinct, not memory.
I barely feel the sting of branches clawing at my arms or the thorns scratching at my ankles. I just keep going until the trees swallow me whole and the world fina
