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CHAPTER ONE - PIE

The sh to hide the girl looking back

So on the restroo intently at ot this bad

I have never been a hundred percent on board with the girl I am, but I’ve come to accept her

Until today

Today… today I a

Especially my outfit

“What the hell was I thinking last night?” I irl in the mirror, but it’s Pia who answers me

“Stop it” Her tiny voice is a bitin

“It’s ten AM in the e thirty ry nun hit ht not be right I was pretty out of it when I woke up in that cave place It ot a ticket for illegally parking at the chapel last night and I just did the walk of shaas station in my Halloween costume”

This outfit see through rural PA and saw the kids froht in their sleepy little town One thing led to another, blah, blah, blah… and then I was doing Jell-O shots with the cool kids dressed like this

Is there any other way to attend a Halloween party at the private Catholic college without being a naughty schoolgirl? Aht

Pia pokes her head out of h so I can see her crown of red feathers Her little beady eyes peer up at me as she speaks “That wasn’t a cave It was the Grotto Our Lady of Lourdes Miracles happened there”

“What language are you speaking?”

“A grotto is a cave ater and the miracles happened in Lourdes”

“Well, trustin this part of PA It’s nothing but hills and the people who live in them”

I screw up my face in the mirror and try to force the outfit from my mind It irl skirt—in s, and the red, strapless leather bustier The flannel came later After I pulled e-y Why didn’t I bring clothes into the bathroos full of them in the back of my Jeep Then I could’ve avoided the walk of shame out of here

“The coether,” Pia offers