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Asalone in a car with her for hours, I needed to make sure she wasn’t here at the coo running to Adaot

I had to hedgeas I was driving What could possibly happen?

Chapter 13

April

I thought about those things he told ed onto Dragon Epoch, and I thought about theht about the, unable to sleep, in spite of the fact that I had to be up at 4:30

I couldn’t stop thinking about the the line you learned that you aren’t worth standing up for I struggled against those words, resisted them Toldabout ht about them, the more I decided they were true

About me About how I dealt with my friends, my parents Especially my parents When I was upset with theer do that But I never told thes and opinions are more valuable than your own Because I didn’t want to hurt their feelings orbad instead

But ho had he done that? How on earth had he seen what I couldn’t see s inside and show the world a brave face

I tossed and turned all night, haunted by his words And because of my freakin’ insane notion that I needed to be at work earlier than expected, I was actually wandering the halls of Draco Multi on less than two hours’ sleep

The light filtering in from outside atery and dim--as dim as I felt, actually I went to the cafeteria for some much-needed coffee, which was about all they served at this hour I was surprised to see other early risers there, too, sitting at sorabbed my coffee and fixed it up with some cream and sweetener, I noticed a couple of people seated nearby, laughing and talking and sounding far too perky for this early in the lance, I noticed it was Mia and Adam’s cousin, Williahts before He looked over aze When she saw aze away, stirring her coffee I waved at Williaain rey I’d perfected that thing in h different variations I’d been waiting for another chance, but too afraid to force the issue

But Jordan’s words yesterday…I hadn’t stopped thinking about thehts