Sweet Escape

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Parts 2
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Reads 74
Votes 15
Parts 2
Time 8m

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"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?All Rights Reserved

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