I could never be like them. He was right. I couldn’t be like them and I didn’t want to be. I didn’t have it in my heart to be so cruel and indifferent. Walking across the quiet street as the sun slowly began to creep up over the buildings, it felt like I was on another planet. A dystopian universe where the world was ending but no one else could feel it but me. It was crushing me from the inside out and it would only be a matter of time before I imploded. I’d had my chance to live on the wild side and I’d failed. My brother was in the hospital, my dad blamed me for everything, and Kaden didn’t think I could ever be the girl he wanted. To add insult to injury, the one person I was counting on knowing when I started high school, Silas, hated me. I don’t think I could ever look him in the eye again after I stood up for Kaden. As I pulled out the house key from the plant that sat next to the front door, I suddenly wanted to turn and continue walking down the road and disappear. I could still live each day like it was my last on my own.
