One option stood out:
Ashford Heights.
Sadie’s school.
The same place my parents said I wasn’t worth.
I transferred.
I didn’t tell them.
For once, I wanted something that belonged entirely to me.
The Discovery
Weeks later, Sadie found me in the library.
“Avery?”
Shock.
Confusion.
“How are you here?”
“I transferred.”
“How are you paying for this?”
“Scholarship.”
That was the moment everything started to shift.
Soon after, my phone filled with messages.
For years, silence had belonged to them.
Now it belonged to me.
