Even though I was exhausted, I walked out of school with my shoulders back and my head held high. I'd never understood why, but I hated showing weakness. Even when I was little, my teachers said that I never cried, never complained, and was almost always stoic and silent. So I walked, but instead of going "home," I headed toward the forest, where I could think and do my homework in peace.
When I saw the fringes of the dark, gnarled trees of the forest, I gave a secret half-=smile and sped up, only to discover that, when I got to the place where my tree was, someone was already there. "Hey," I called out "What are you doing here?"
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Always In The Dark
Fiksi RemajaJade is the shadow girl, the one no one notices. She doesn't know how she got here, where her home is, who she is. And the strange thing? No one else knows either. She has no ties, no family and no friends. So what happens when she is dragged along...
