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GracieIt is the last night of the summer holidays. Our senior year starts tomorrow. It is my last year of high school. When I leave, I will miss school, but I won’t miss this damn town or most of the people who live in it. Everyone from my class is in the woods having a party. A tradition of this town and has been for years. It is the one night of the entire year we are all together, but when school starts again, most of us won’t even look at each other, let alone spend any time together. It is high school after all, what else can anyone expect?The bonfire is lit, the music is blaring, and the drinks are flowing. People are making out, taking photos and acting like they are all friends. It isn’t my scene. To start, I don’t drink for personal reasons. When your father is an abusive alcoholic who takes all his anger out on you, it tends to put you off drinking. I have a deep fear that if I start drinking, I will end up acting like him. I don’t want that. That is not who I am. I could

Gracie I am sitting in first class, tugging at the sleeves of my hoodie. I need to make sure they never crawl up, or people will see the bruises on my arms with my father’s fingerprints. He was drunk when I got home last night. He was rough with me. He always is. At least the bruising on my side is easier to hide than the one on my wrists.“Are you not melting in that hoodie?” Lola chuckles from next to me. I laugh, shaking my head. “No, I am alright.”The truth is, I am too hot, but I can’t take it off. If I did, people would see and start asking questions. You can tell by just looking at the marks that someone else’s hands caused them. I push my so-called father to the back of my mind and focus on class. There is something else distracting me, though, the stranger from last night. I am no closer to working out who he is. I may not ever know. Our class is interrupted by a knock on the door. It is the principal’s secretary. Our maths teacher, Mrs Holland, answers and talks to her f