Chapter 39

“Art’s a seductress, who seduces not the skilled hands, but the broken heart.”

—Tigress Lionheart.

“Even If you are at the right track. You will get run over if you just sit there.”

—Will Roger.

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

—Muhammed Ali.

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Anna’s POV

Cutest moment of my life.

Sighs!

It was my fifteenth birthday and no one remembered to wish me. Not dad, not mom, not Mrs. Bailey, not nonna, not my best friends. Nobody.

I felt neglected, abandoned, used as an old dilapidated shoe. All through the day, I kept sulking. Dad even had the effrontery to wish a colleague happy birthday in my presence.

I was mad and filled with rage and resentment. I cried my eyes out throughout the day. I had accepted I was a nobody. At least, that was what I thought before a