Chapter 26
EVANGELINE POINT OF VIEW
After lunch, I head to the library. It's always been my sanctuary, the one place where I could disappear completely. But today, I don't hide in the back corner with a book over my face. I sit at one of the main tables with my journal open in front of me.
For weeks, I've been writing about them. About Ronan's rejection and Celeste's cruelty and how much it all hurts. Page after page of pain and longing and desperate hope that maybe, somehow, things would get better.
Today, I flip to a fresh page and write something different.
*I spent so long trying to be small enough that they might tolerate me. Quiet enough that they might forget to hate me. But being small didn't protect me. Being quiet didn't save me. It just made me easier to hurt.*
*I'm done b
