71. Shadows

...Sienna POV...

I couldn't deny it. Ever since we arrived here, it was as if I had been given a second chance at life. No one seemed to know who I really was, and if they did, they never said a word. That alone was like a dream come true. I had become so accustomed to the bullying that I had forgotten what it was like not to be bullied.

To be in a place where people respected me, seemed out of the ordinary. It was obvious that the other students in my program knew I was hiding something, but no one ever approached me about it. While their side looks never went past me, at least nothing ever evolved from it.

I could manage their pitying looks. I spent years getting used to it. It was the looks of knowing that always killed me. I could see in their eyes that everyone blamed me for what happened to Rylee. The looks that I had never once seen from those around me here in Soacha. For the first time in a long time, I felt as though I could actually breathe. No one seemed to be out to get