Who I Was
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Last published Fri, Dec 27, 2019
Lena's strategy in life is to keep her head down. It makes it easier for others to pretend she doesn't exist. Unfortunately, life has innumerable ways of showing her the middle finger and the latest comes in the form of a scholarship to one of the most prestigious schools in the country. Being practical, she knows that this is the best shot she has at having a better life for her sister and her.
She knows it's going to be difficult. People will talk (people wouldn't be people without that). Curses and jibes will be thrown. But that she can handle. What she can't handle is the group of five rich(their parents earn in billions), beautiful (like on the cover of Calvin Klein and Victoria's secret) teenagers thrown in her path. The more she tries to stay away, the more she gets involved with them.
But she has secrets. Secrets that would reveal why she's one of the best martial artists she's known, why she can't help but pay attention to every little detail about people and her surroundings, why she sometimes scares herself.
But secrets are only secrets as long as they're kept hidden. And hidden secrets have a way of getting back at you.
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