Chapter 36

HAZEL

I shift uncomfortably in my position and notice how beautiful everything looks, instead of focusing on what they have to say about me. It’s definitely nothing that I have not heard before.

They don’t come up to me. I wait for so long for a few of them to come up to me, taunt me, and beat me up, but none of them do that. They just give me dirty looks like synchronized robots, and I shudder due to the impact of their gazes.

“What are you guys looking at?” I ask them weakly, and they start to giggle, but nobody bothers to give me a reply to my question.

“Who does she think she is?” I hear one ask.

“Did you see the way she walked in here just like she owns the place?” another asks.

“It’s her audacity for me. It looks like she wants to start practicing her witchcraft in public now,” one accuses me.

Tears fill my eyes and I can’t take all of this anymore. I just want to exist in peace and even now, that is a problem?

“I’m not doing this here,” I mutter and get up, making sure to give t