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Sitting the box down, I placed ainso many heavy boxes up the steps

I looked around, a small proud smile on my lips

This was it

This place was mine

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I had never hadex-boyfriend whose name I refused to even think

After a crappy tiet away—as far away as possible

So, noas on this crazy journey to find my identity

I strode over to the large s, looking outside My apartment was in an old part of town and I was in love with the charm It hat drew me here in the first place The town boasted unique shops and the building had exposed brick walls, old wood floors, and a netism that I couldn’t help but be drawn to

I foundas I watched the traffic below

Moving twelve hundred miles away from home would probably scarecollege, I’d needed to get away froativity and disgusted stares for alike a piece of shit

I’d known my whole life I was adopted, and I wasn’t sure if that was the reason I always felt like I didn’t belong…or so else

I reached up, runningslender raised scar onand red, and ugly, but it was a part of me It reminded me that once I’d had a different family—a family I’d never know, because while I’d escaped the fire with nothing but this scar as a baby, my whole family had lost their lives A mom, dad, and brother that I’d never know All I had left of theed from the rubble I missed them—which seemed impossible when I didn’t even know them There was an emptiness in my heart where they should have been

I pulled away fro the in

Eyeing the open s, and realizing that it would be dark soon, I decided to leave the boxes where they were and run to the store No as I sleeping in here s wide open like that