Chapter 81

ELLIE

I was glad that the awkward weekend had finally come to an end and that it was finally time to meet with real people in school once again.

The house had been quite suffocating with all the absurd things that had gone on recently and I was in quite a hurry to get to school that morning.

I had never been so glad about school in a while like I was at that point. It would have been hell if all of that had happened over the holidays.

There were a lot of things that would make it all look like it had all been one big setup meant to make the whole step-sister role unbearable for me, but I was going to push through it all no matter what happened.

To make it a bit better, I still had my meeting with Dylan to look forward to that day after school. That was a bit nice as it would make up for the embarrassment of the previous day at least. He had nearly blown it all when he had showed up at the dinner.

“One step at a time...” I said to myself as I walked out of the house, earlier than e