New Perspectives

People are selfish. It's a fact of life, just know that now. Sometimes people aren't happy with the life they're given. Then, as they attempt escape, they hurt those who love them. And I'm selfish.

I made a bad decision, convincing myself it was the right thing to do.

I knew how sensitively decisions like this can so drastically change your life.

And even as I realized this, I knew I'd made my decision.

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Emerson Collins, or Emery as her foster family and lack of friends call her, was thirteen when she lost her parents, along with her voice. Now almost five years later, she's seventeen and counting down the days until she can escape her mysterious adoptive family, the Martin's, and start a new life for herself, without the harsh glares of former friends and enemies alike. Or at least she's thinking about it.

What Emery doesn't know is that she's only setting herself up for heartbreak. And if she doesn't play her cards right? Possibly death.