Two weeks passed with us going about our new routines. School didn’t get better…for either of us. The kids still stared at me as if I was a circus attraction, and they treated May as if she was an outcast. After the days of adjusting to their coldness, it didn’t hurt much anymore. We pretended that their looks weren’t there- it was the easiest thing to do since after all, they didn’t matter to us anyways.
At school, Talon was still the only kid that had been brave enough to talk to me. Very slowly, I was beginning to believe that he wanted to be my friend…when I didn’t look into his eyes. The dark depths still sent chills down my spine for reasons still unknown. I noticed that at school, he provided me with a type of immunity; when he was around me, the kids didn’t plague me with their lo
