Sweet Escape

"When life throws too much poopoo at you to handle, what would you do? Run and escape? Or Pull up your big pants and face it like a Warrior?", My little brother, Elliot, asked me with a serious frown on his little forehead, trying not to mess up his question.

Quite shocked, I gulped and asked rather than answering, "Uh, you sleep it away?"

Ellie's face that was scrunched up a moment ago, suddenly came to life with a new found glow and achievement in his big blue eyes.

He raced out of my room screaming, "Oh my God, Mommy!! Thea is a lazy bum too then! I win! Gimme my cookies now!"

Oh!

Well, then.

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Althea Ross Cardell, an ordinary high school girl whose life turns upside down in the blink of an eye when she moves into a new home and a new life with new, maybe not really new, people.

Who can she trust, when the people she loved the most, are not even the people they claim to be?