I paused again and squeezed Zanthus’ hand as I looked up at Xander to see pure shock on his face. None of us spoke of that day and Xander didn’t know what happened to me he just thought I was sick and he couldn’t see me so he didn’t catch what I had. I wiped the tears from my face again and said, “he picked me up and took me to my uncles house. My uncle met us there along with a doctor. It took them awhile to get me cleaned up and when they thought I was asleep they started talking about my mothers involvement. They were trying to figure out what to do with her. At some point they left me in the room alone and I fell asleep only to be woken up by a nightmare. So I went in search of my uncle only to run into my mother. She started screaming about how she thought that she had gotten rid of m

