Chapter 25

The door burst opened and I quickly looked away, my loose hair creating a curtain between them and me, covering the right side of my face. I wanted to get up but I just couldn’t bring myself to stand up. Before, maybe it was because my legs were numb and weak but now, I just did not have that strength to get up and face them. I was afraid of interacting with new people because I was so scared of being judged again.

And, I just don’t have that will power to raise my head up, walk straight ahead and just avoid their crude judgments on the way. I felt the need to stop and glanced sideways towards them and freeze up due to their remarks. I fisted up my hands, trying to forget those feelings. Maybe these people won’t be like them, like my father and like Alicia.

However, I spoke too soon.

“Who is she?” I heard a male voice asking in curiosity.

Stop that, don’t you know that curiosity kills the cat?

I couldn’t he