Chapter 23

They both laughed. Alicia sighed. Lucy was now more of a friend to Helen than she was to her, and that was completely fine since Helen hardly made friends. She would study and make all the paper arts she could at home alone, and no friends would ever visit her or spend time with her. She hardly ever attended parties too.

As the best student in her class, she got a lot of invitations to birthday parties and get-together parties since her peers wanted to hang out with her as the most intelligent kid in her class. But she had rather stay indoors than go to the parties. Tony had begun to worry that her social life was going to suffer and that she might eventually become a timid young woman—not like she was timid—and he had taken her out to a few parties that he was invited to, and she had never liked them.

She had told him that she had rather stay all day in the house alone than be in the company of drinkers and smokers who played too-loud music and asked her for an erotic d