Chapter 170

Her family lived in town but she hadn't wanted to go to college from there and she didn't want to stay in hostels either, that is how we ended up being roommates. But now it is clear she has changed her mind. Else, it would be too heartbreaking if she was already living with a new roommate.

There is a chance I will see her in class today and I am nervous about that because I don't know how to act with her. I still don't have an explanation for her silence. The Ashley I know, the Ashley that was my sister before our joint kidnapping, that Ashley would have tried to hash out the issues we were having. She would have insisted on it. She always hated conflicts and malice. It made her uncomfortable.

But alas, she changed. Just like I have. Now she can serve me this kind of tomb like silence and be fine. Tyler changed us both. And in awfully opposite directions. I had Linc to hold my hand through the trauma. She didn't have anyone. Probably just her judgemental parents.

I want