I ran.

I didn’t wait to see anyone’s expression, though murmurs and shocking comments flooded the hall, I couldn’t wait to process them.

Maybe I was running from myself too.

My heels hit the floor unevenly, clacking like gunfire against it as I stumbled down the corridor. My breath tore out of me in fragments. I didn’t even realize I was crying until the air hit the tears on my cheeks. Everything in me shook. My body, my thoughts, my pulse- none of them obeyed me anymore.

I turned sharply at the end of the hall and leaned against a pillar, trying to steady my breathing. My chest was pounding...