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CHAPTER 31 - ELENA

Author: J.O
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-29 17:45:59

The next day at school, I moved through the halls like a ghost. I wasn’t sure if I had even slept. Everything felt hazy, distant, like I was floating outside my own body, watching myself go through the motions.

People spoke to me—I heard their voices and saw their lips move—but none of it registered.

“Elena? Did you hear me?”

I blinked. Tiffany was standing in front of me, waving a manicured hand in my face.

“Hmm?” I mumbled.

She narrowed her eyes. “Are you sick or something? You look… awful.”

I gave her a blank stare. “Thanks.”

She huffed, clearly unimpressed with my lack of reaction.

She flounced off, and I let my head rest against the locker for a moment, my body sagging with exhaustion.

“Elena?”

That voice.

I knew it instantly.

I turned my head just enough to meet Noah’s gaze. He stood a few feet away, hands shoved in his pockets, his expression unreadable.

Something twisted inside me.

I should have walked away. I should have ignored him, just like he had told me to.

But I didn’t.
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