Aurora Even when I went to the bathroom to clean up, I couldn't bring myself to cry. Maybe the anger and hurt I felt dried them all up. People took pictures with their phones. Others blatantly pointed and laughed, but the thing that stood out to me for some reason was that somehow, I hadn't set my eyes on any of the twins that were to blame for my predicament in the first place. They had put me right in the middle of Alchemia for all to see, and then vanished into thin air like it was all a figment of my imagination. But I knew what was real and what wasn't. As for Stella, I didn't even know what to think about her. We hadn't gotten so close, yes, but I had started to open up my heart to her—to the possibility that maybe we could end up as good friends. But before my very eyes she had

