Leysa:
We had all gone back to our respective homes. Troy and I had arrived at his pack.
I knew things were going to be very difficult here.
Troy's father was very controlling. I had heard a lot about him from my father.
My father, who called himself everyone's friend, would criticize him whenever he got the chance and laugh at him.
That was my father's habit.
He had never done anything genuinely good.
Every relationship he had was always for some hidden motive.
So he had shared many things about Troy's father as well.
But when I arrived and saw the way his father treated his mother and Troy, I realized he was even worse.
What had been said about him was far less than the truth.
And now all the attention was on me.
His stepmother made it quite obvious, turning her face away as if she did not like me standing in their place.
His stepmother was an instigator.
"Did you hear what he said?" she asked.
She knew he had heard it.
Everyone had.
