48.

Sofia

It all seemed like a movie, how I suddenly became popular overnight. Everywhere I went people whispered and they wouldn't stop. At some point, I thought the only way to stop people from pointing fingers at me was to disappear. But I couldn't, it wasn't that easy. As I left English class, Eugene drew me apart from the group that had begun to gather around me.

“What are you doing?” I was startled by how he had suddenly dragged me.

“Those kids are bullies!” He shut the door of an empty class behind us.

I sighed.

“Things might not look fine with you at the moment, but trust me, they don't care.” He said as a matter of fact. Of course, I knew that. They don't care. Even Charlene. She didn't come. She might have thought it was her turn to be upset, but she wasn't right. At all.

“Thanks.” I took off my backpack, examining the room carefully. It looked like a laboratory, a deserted one. I never knew such a place existed in all my years in the school.

“Where is this place? How did you co