Journey to Love
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"I'm sorry. I'm really really sorry. pl-please can I have my glasses back. I-i-i promise I'll be a good girl"
"tsk tsk Layla. You've lost the privilege to wear them. Only good girls get to have their glasses, and you haven't been a good fucking girl have you?"
9 year old Layla Atwell has learned the hard way the do's and don't's of living under the rules and punishments of her foster family.
She has learned how to survive at the hands of two cruel parents, who find enjoyment in seeing Layla in pain. She lives in fear and pain, not knowing the first thing about how to love or to be loved. She survives each day, staying quiet, obedient and keeping herself small.
Until a certain teacher starts to notice some odd behavior. What will Mrs Williams do when she starts noticing that Layla is falling behind.
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