The weight of everyone's stares, the whispers, the judgment, I felt it all pressing down on me like an anchor pulling me under. I had held it together all day, forcing myself to ignore the looks, to pretend the world wasn’t watching me like I was some villain in a story I never agreed to be a part of. Even though Polly and Olivia are there with me, it just felt suffocating just being there in that school. But now, I needed space.
So, my feet carried me here, to the place Mason had once brought me.
As I stepped through the thick foliage, the world around me softened. The stream’s gentle murmur filled the silence, the birds hummed a melody that felt like a distant lullaby, and the trees swayed to the rhythm of the wind, their leaves whispering secrets only they could understand. The air sm
