SAVANNA (VERONICA)I had spent the night in a hotel before heading to Astor Heights the next morning to register.Dragging my suitcase, I paused at the grand entrance for a moment, tilting my head up to take it all in.With everything I knew about Veronica, her grades, her personality, her background, it was easy to picture how her life was supposed to go.No surprises at all.She would have probably graduated high school somehow, ended up stuck in some dead-end supermarket or factory job, getting pushed around and overworked for a paycheck that barely lasted a month, while Gregory squeezed whatever little she had left out of her.If she ever "qualified" for marriage, he would have likely married her off just as quickly, for whatever dowry he could get, without hesitation.And her life after that? Probably not much better either.But that wasn't her future anymore.Now I was here, standing in her place, stepping into Astor Heights as a student, and into a completely different life.Ve
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