10 - Ride The Wave

~Grace’s Point of View~

While one minute I felt like I had a target on my back, the next… I’m strolling into the cafeteria to a damn standing ovation.

I blushed, harder than I ever had. My mom had walked down with me, and stopped dead in her tracks, putting her hand on my arm. She never … ever touches me.

“Oh don’t trouble yourselves, but thank you,” she immediately said.

If a face could say “bitch please,” mine was saying it. My entire body tensed and if she was literally anyone else, I might be tempted to punch her and I’d never done that in my life.

When she took the credit, I turned toward Violet who was coming my way. She wasn’t having it and apparently had feelings about my mom.

“GRACE! GRACE! GRACE,” Violet began to shout, and everyone chimed in.

My hands went to cover my mouth and I was sure my face was completely red. By the time I looked up at mom, she actually looked … proud? Dare I say?

It was beyond wild to really be seen like this, so publicly. I mean I’d been in