Chapter 27

MIA

I HAVE A COUSIN, BORN BLIND, IT DIDN’T STOP HER FROM RUNNING TRACK.

You can be anything you want, Mia and no one can convince you otherwise.

Ethan Lochan had been great company for the night. After Tonia had assaulted me with a few mean words that diminished the brave front I had put up, the last thing I expected was to land in the men’s washroom and find a good guy like Ethan to show me the way out.

And I don’t know it was nice having someone to talk to albeit a stranger about my condition.

While my friends-Lucy’s friends didn’t ask much about me being blind to which I was grateful, the stinging feel of losing my eyesight still lurked in my heart, throbbing every time I heard someone speak and I couldn’t make out which face was which or who was who and with Ethan...

I guess it was easy to talk to a stranger who understood my condition rather than told the people close to me.

And the night with Ethan had been remarkable, the best night I’d had since I received ‘the whole I don’t t