Shady

“I was,” Ky said with a grim smirk. “I didn’t want to be, but I had to be or I got hurt… I still half expect to get hurt when ...

“Kind of,” Ky mused. “But neither of us could really…” she stopped herself before she went down a path of gossip involving Lyra. The poor girl didn’t deserve that. “Well, ...

“You’ve got a whole lifetime ahead of you to figure it out,” Ky said encouragingly. “When I was your age, I still lived with my papa on our farm. I ...

That wasn’t at all what Ky had been expecting. It wasn’t a juicy secret. It was just insecurity. It needed a different mindset. “Everyone has different strengths,” Ky said gently, ...

“Please do,” Ky said, dipping her head. Here she was. Still clawing for secrets like a starved rat.

“Thank you.” Ky nodded. Anneliese didn’t have the first idea what it meant. But it made more sense that she was given that version than the truth. Ky was glad ...

(Fascinating) “No, it’s okay,” Ky shook her head, shaking it off. This wasn’t about her… but she was morbidly curious, now. “… what did you hear?”

“No,” Ky whispered, shaking her head. “No, you can’t. But it’s better when you have something else you can think of too, instead of being focused entirely on what hurt ...

it’s good to have goals

Ky cringed. “It can be hard to live with it when terrible things happen to you. It’s easier to bear it when you can make yourself forget sometimes.”

Ky was horrified. “But why was he so awful?”

look at us gooooooo

“That’s awful ,” Ky said genuinely, looking at her with wide eyes. No wonder Ash was so awful; he’d had it so much worse than she did.

(Hahaha) “Not much,” Ky admitted. “I’ve got a vague gist that it was Not Good, but it hasn’t felt like my place to ask…”

“Holy hell,” Ky agreed breathlessly. “What even just happened?”